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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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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."

"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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!"

"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."

"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."

"Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else."

"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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