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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.
Isabelle Huppert
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Isabelle Huppert
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert
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You don't want to cry over yourself, you don't want to have compassion about yourself. It's not the right place.
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A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.
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