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I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.
Isabelle Huppert
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Isabelle Huppert
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
Film Actor
Film Actress
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Stage Actor
Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert
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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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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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I don't think I'm that intellectual.
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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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Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.
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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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To be here and now, in principle, is just for once. And then you have to repeat that.
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But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.
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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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A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator.
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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.
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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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Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
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I was raised and I was going to school in the suburbs of Paris. And so we, I didn't really go to the riots, to the barricade. I was too young, actually. Rather young.
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One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.
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I never had any barriers coming from my family. Just encouragement.
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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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