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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
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert
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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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A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator.
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But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.
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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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I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.
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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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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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I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.
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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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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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Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
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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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I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.
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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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I don't think I'm that intellectual.
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Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire.
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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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