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The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.
Isabelle Huppert
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Isabelle Huppert
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
Film Actor
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Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert
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Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real.
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I never had any barriers coming from my family. Just encouragement.
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But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people
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A script is a very rough material in a way. Whatever questions you might have regarding the script, you might find the beginning of the answers in the book.
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Well, my mother, she made me apply for a school where I was supposed to learn how to type. She said, well, instead of going to demonstrate she should at least [learn], because, everything was on strike. So we had to learn something in the meantime.
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I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.
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To me acting and doing movies is really strongly about the present time. It's all about when you do it. It's to create this feeling of extreme awareness and concentration. Because it doesn't happen without an extreme concentration, when you are completely immersed and focused on that.
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To be here and now, in principle, is just for once. And then you have to repeat that.
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I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.
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For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!
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Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
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But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.
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Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.
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