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Isabelle Huppert

"When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it."

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"When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it."

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"Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug."
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"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."
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"Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture."
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"For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!"
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"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."
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"The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre."
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"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."
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"But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach."
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"Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers."
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"Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film."
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