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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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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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If on paper one would say, You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley, you say, No, I'm not going to be able to. Very often, very quickly you forget about it.
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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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I never had any barriers coming from my family. Just encouragement.
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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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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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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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I don't think I'm that intellectual.
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