Latest Isabelle Huppert Quotes from Interviews

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• I've done many, many French movies and many, many English movies. I think it frees something when you don't talk in your mother language, but I also think you withdraw something as well. I'm a French actress, and sometimes I speak in English-speaking roles. For me, being an actress was always being a traveler. It goes together.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Mother, Thinking, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm curious and you know, I really think cinema is strong medium that allows you to go to so many different mental countries, not just geographical countries. As far as it allows me to express something of my own truth, it's fine for me. I can go to the moon.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Country, Strong, Moon

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The big problem in the world is when people are forced to be in a totally foreign context.

  Isabelle Huppert

  People, World, Problem

  Source: film.avclub.com

• A script is a very rough material in a way. Whatever questions you might have regarding the script, you might find the beginning of the answers in the book.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Book, Rough

  Source: www.elle.com

• Sometimes you don't really understand the characters you do. I don't need to. Most of the behavior is obscure and I don't mind that. On the contrary, it's a fuel for me, to find out who the character is. As the spectator is finding out, I find out about the character myself.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Character, Mind, Sometimes

  Source: www.elle.com

• Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Years, Sometimes, Surface

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• You don't want to cry over yourself, you don't want to have compassion about yourself. It's not the right place.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Compassion, Over You, Want

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• I don't have time, because I still have so many films to see.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Film, Stills

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• When I hear myself, I don't know how I sound.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Sound, Know How, Knows

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Numbers, Saws, Chekhov

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Perfect, Acting, Blind

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Shooting, Want, Belief

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Mean, Special, Directors

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Feelings, Acting, Awareness

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Thinking, People, Directors

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• To be "here and now," in principle, is just for once. And then you have to repeat that.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Principles, Here And Now, Repeats

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Acting, Lines, Definitions

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Jobs, Actors, Spectators

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Distance, Order, Interesting

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• We all pretend to be very strong, and then in a fraction, you can just break down, at least for me.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Strong, Breaking Down, Fractions

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• When you're an actress you are in a very specific position, cerebrally, I would think you know. You are a thinking person but you are in a certain perception of the world between really being conceptual and completely stupid. So you are in between, with a lot of intuition and instinct. And that's not completely being intellectual because I think intuition is more blurred. It comes from intuition. Instinct. More than really reasoning.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Stupid, Thinking, Intellectual

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Thinking, Actresses, Sometimes

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Real, People, Laughing

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• I don't think I'm that intellectual.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Thinking, Intellectual

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Thinking, People, Intellectual

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com