“If I seem detached or distant, it's because I think this is a more exact reproduction of life, where you hide as much as you show. When I see a scene in which feelings get loudly exteriorized, I say to myself, 'Well, at least this never happens to me.' I very rarely go through this type of expression. Most of the time things are hidden or at least much more subdued.” IfsThinkingWellsShowsFeelingsSeemsHappensExpressionTypeSceneDetachedReproduction Author:Isabelle Huppert
“I think movies say a lot [about real life], even more than theater. It says a lot about the invisible, that movies are so fascinating. The camera lens is like a microscope that goes beyond the surface. It's like you're exploring a secret, so you explore the director's secret, you explore the actor's secret, and therefore you explore the universe's secrets.” ThinkingRealUniverseActorsSecretLike YouDirectorsTheaterCamerasSurfaceReal LifeInvisibleFascinatingExploringLensesMicroscopesCamera Lenses Author:Isabelle Huppert
“I think that a sense of humor of an actor comes through most of the time. Maybe some actors have less than others, and I have it, I think. It's my nature.” ThinkingActorsSense Of Humor Author:Isabelle Huppert
“One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe her. She says it and it creates this fiction, non-fiction perception of the film. People believe it because she says it. If she said, "I'm a butcher," people would believe it too, I think.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveSaidFilmFictionPerceptionShoesActressesSellingNon FictionCaricaturesButchersSelling Shoes Author:Isabelle Huppert
“I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.” ThinkingMotherFiveActressesMeant To BeWere Meant To Be Author:Isabelle Huppert
“Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.” ThinkingPlaySchoolCommonStudentsExceptionalCommon Things Author:Isabelle Huppert
“Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.” PeopleThinkingSometimesIntellectual Author:Isabelle Huppert
“Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.” ThinkingKnowsSometimesKnow HowActresses Author:Isabelle Huppert
“When you're an actress you are in a very specific position, cerebrally, I would think you know. You are a thinking person but you are in a certain perception of the world between really being conceptual and completely stupid. So you are in between, with a lot of intuition and instinct. And that's not completely being intellectual because I think intuition is more blurred. It comes from intuition. Instinct. More than really reasoning.” ThinkingKnowsWorldPersonsCertainStupidPositionPerceptionIntellectualInstinctIntuitionActressesReasoningPerception Of The WorldThinking Person Author:Isabelle Huppert
“What people think improvisation is and non-improvisation is, it's nothing to do with what you like or dislike. It's all about how it happens with certain directors and certain scenes. That's the way it works. It's not something, in general, that you can decide.” PeopleThinkingWayHappensCertainSceneDirectorsWorking ItDislikeImprovisation Author:Isabelle Huppert
“I'm curious and you know, I really think cinema is strong medium that allows you to go to so many different mental countries, not just geographical countries. As far as it allows me to express something of my own truth, it's fine for me. I can go to the moon.” ThinkingDifferentCountryStrongMoonCurious Author:Isabelle Huppert
“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.” ThinkingSometimesDoneTogetherMotherSpeakLanguageTraveler Author:Isabelle Huppert
“For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.” ThinkingLongLong TimeRhythmCinema Author:Isabelle Huppert
“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” ThinkingWayFactsTalentActressesUntalented Author:Isabelle Huppert
“It really helps you to go through difficult situations by just thinking about it as being a big amount of work which you have to solve how to do. For example, I don't feel very inspired when I act, I just act. That's it.” ThinkingFeelsHelpingBigsDifficultSituationExampleAmountInspiredSolveDifficult SituationsVery Inspired Author:Isabelle Huppert
“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.” ThinkingRealFilmDifficultKnowingSceneInspiredMakersBeing RealGreat Film Author:Isabelle Huppert
