“We all pretend to be very strong, and then in a fraction, you can just break down, at least for me.” Quote by Isabelle Huppert
“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.” KnowsFeelingsOrderLiteratureInterestingActingDistanceInteresting ThingsGreat FeelingsBalzac Author:Isabelle Huppert
“One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.” JobsActorsSpectators Author:Isabelle Huppert
“By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.” IfsLinesActingDefinitionsImprovisation 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
“To be "here and now," in principle, is just for once. And then you have to repeat that.” PrinciplesRepeatsHere And Now Author:Isabelle Huppert
“To me acting and doing movies is really strongly about the present time. It's all about when you do it. It's to create this feeling of extreme awareness and concentration. Because it doesn't happen without an extreme concentration, when you are completely immersed and focused on that.” FeelingsHappensActingAwarenessExtremesFocusedConcentrationPresent Time Author:Isabelle Huppert
“To be a great director, what does it mean exactly? It's not only about a great director, but also about being able to rely on the very special chemistry that goes between them. It not only has to be a great director, but the great director has to make his relationship to you, the actor, very special.” MeanDoeAbleActorsSpecialDirectorsRelyChemistry Author:Isabelle Huppert
“Of course you have to create the conditions of a certain belief. And maybe ignoring something that you don't want to see, at least for the time of the shooting.” WantCertainCoursesBeliefConditionsShooting Author:Isabelle Huppert
“I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.” PerfectActingDangerBlindMetaphor Author:Isabelle Huppert
“I saw Chekhov a number of times in English, and I thought that it translates very well in English, for some reason, from the Russian to the English.” WellsReasonNumbersSawsTranslateChekhov Author:Isabelle Huppert