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Catherine Breillat Biography

Filmmaker

Catherine Breillat is a renowned French filmmaker, born on July 13, 1948. Her films are known for their profound psychological insights and exploration of social issues.

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“If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.”

Ifs Want Humans Species Preserves Virginity Abstinence Human Species

Author:Catherine Breillat

“I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.”

People Mean Passion Dark Despair Idealism

Author:Catherine Breillat

“Only conformists are ever adored.”

Conformist

Author:Catherine Breillat

“If I stop making films, I will die. I can tell myself that one day I will stop living. But I cannot bear the fact that the day will come when I will no longer be making films.”

Ifs I Can Facts Film Dies Bears One Day

Author:Catherine Breillat

“There is no masculine psychology in my cinema. There is only the resentments and desires of women. A man should not attempt to recognize himself in my male characters. On the other hand, he can find [in the films] a better understanding of women. And knowledge of the other is the highest goal.”

Men Should Character Hands Film Desire Understanding Goal Psychology Highest Males Cinema Resentment Masculine

Author:Catherine Breillat

“The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.”

Trying Problem Form Protect Concepts Absurd Obscene Obscenity

Author:Catherine Breillat

“I know why I make films -cinema is a mode of expression that allows you to express all the nuances of a thing while including its opposites. These are things that can't be quantified mentally; yet they can exist and be juxtaposed. That may seem very contradictory. Cinema allows you to film these contradictions.”

Knows May Seems Film Expression Opposites Including Cinema Contradiction Contradictory Nuance

Author:Catherine Breillat

“Be what we make, and not who we are.”

Directors Who We Are Filmmaking

Author:Catherine Breillat

About the Author

Born: July 13, 1948
Known for: Filmmaker
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