Quotes by Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Huppert

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.

Book

Rough

Am I an intellectual? I don’t think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.

Intellectual

People

Thinking

Balzac, you know, our great Balzac, he wrote interesting things about how in literature you keep distance in order to express great feelings. You have to keep a distance – and it’s exactly the same with acting.

Distance

Interesting

Order

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

Monsters

People

Trying

But theatre is always a difficult experience.

Difficult

Difficult Experiences

Theatre

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.

Knowing

Real

Thinking

For me, making films is like being on vacation, it’s a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you’re going to fall off or make it to the top.

Fall

Nice

Vacation

I always thought that’s the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.

Acting

Blind

Perfect

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

Film

Stage

Television

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.

Matter

Want

Way

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Dramatic

Easier

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Fall

Feelings

Fields

Film

Intellectual

Interesting

Jobs

Know How

Knowing

Knows

Laughing

Made

Matter

Mean

Monsters

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Nice

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Real

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Rough

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Quotes by Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Huppert

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.

Am I an intellectual? I don’t think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.

Balzac, you know, our great Balzac, he wrote interesting things about how in literature you keep distance in order to express great feelings. You have to keep a distance – and it’s exactly the same with acting.

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

But theatre is always a difficult experience.

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.

For me, making films is like being on vacation, it’s a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you’re going to fall off or make it to the top.

I always thought that’s the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

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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