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Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

Isabelle Huppert

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Isabelle Huppert
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
Film Actor
Film Actress
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert
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Insanity
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I've done many, many French movies and many, many English movies. I think it frees something when you don't talk in your mother language, but I also think you withdraw something as well. I'm a French actress, and sometimes I speak in English-speaking roles. For me, being an actress was always being a traveler. It goes together.
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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 wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.
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I don't think I'm that intellectual.
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When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it
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One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.
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A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator.
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But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach.
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I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything
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Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.
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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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Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things
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The choosing of a role is so difficult for me. That's the real challenge: to choose the role, not to do the role. Once you've chosen them, the process is much easier.
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Of course you have to create the conditions of a certain belief. And maybe ignoring something that you don't want to see, at least for the time of the shooting.
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I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.
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Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
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It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.
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Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.
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