Isabelle Huppert Quotes

Outstanding contribution to cinema. - Isabelle Huppert

Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things. - Isabelle Huppert

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything. - Isabelle Huppert

It's not difficult; it's not a big effort. But it's a big effort for me to pursue what I want to do, so that's the effort. When I act, it's just a relief. It's just a respiration. - Isabelle Huppert

It's more like breathing for me to act. - 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. - Isabelle Huppert

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous. - Isabelle Huppert

I'm very happy. But when this sort of thing happens, it's best to have a certain detachment. - Isabelle Huppert

I'm standing all the way through the piece, very stiff like a tree, very much rooted in the earth... It's like she was wishing to die standing, to die alive. It's a strange feeling. - Isabelle Huppert

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. - Isabelle Huppert

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