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Beatrice Dalle

"I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me."

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Donna Grant

"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."

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Donna Grant

"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."

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Donna Grant

"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."

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Donna Grant

"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."

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Donna Grant

"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."

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Donna Grant

"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."

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Donna Grant

"That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally."

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Donna Grant

"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor."

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Donna Grant

"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."

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Beatrice Dalle
"I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me."

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Beatrice Dalle
"There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming."

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Beatrice Dalle
"I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role."

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Beatrice Dalle
"I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script."

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Beatrice Dalle
"I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme."

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