Latest Charlotte Gainsbourg Quotes from Interviews

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• With a film you go with the script that's already written. And I've never thought of a project, a film that would come from my own desire. I don't think I can do it. I need someone else's desire to be able to do something. With a record, it is completely different, it's a collaboration with another artist, but I'm willing to go into intimate places with no masks on.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Artist, Thinking, Desire

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I can't do things by myself. I need a motivation, and the motivation is always the director's. I find my freedom inside other people's barriers. It's easier for me to find myself inside someone else's tracks.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Motivation, Track, Barriers

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I think it's a legend that Lars von Trier is such a tough person to work with. I really didn't experience any of that. Of course, he's difficult in the sense that what he asks for is difficult. For my part in Antichrist, I suffered a bit. But it was the part - it wasn't him. He wasn't cruel. On the contrary, he was very kind. You know what you're up for when you read the pitch.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Thinking, Tough, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It rarely happens that I get to work again with the same director. I had such a wonderful time on Antichrist with Lars von Trier, that I was going to do whatever he proposed me to do. When he sent me the script of Christmas, I just loved it. I think I love anything he writes.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Writing, Thinking, Wonderful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Simple, Opposites, Ideas

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Wish, Shy, Facts

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my father's influence and because the comparisons that I - not even other people - would make.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Father, Writing, People

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Land, Different, Able

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• I felt that people would criticize everything. I was so scared about playing Paris. I was very much aware that the greatest concerts my father and mother had done were there. I was sure people would be very tough.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Mother, Father, Paris

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Father, People, Care

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• I came to understand that people come and see you because they like you. They don't come to throw things at you.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  People, Like You

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Elsewhere

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Ideas, People, Singing

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  One Day, Able, Wilder

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Shy, Helping, Help Me

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• Even moving around onstage seemed very artificial. But at the same time you have to make that effort in order to get back to who you are and even accept not moving, if that's who you are.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Moving, Order, Effort

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Personality, Ego, Want

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they don't look like weaknesses.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Mistake, Artist, Weakness

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Fighting, Weakness, Embarrassing

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• I don't feel that I've accomplished anything. I feel that it'll be better when I won't care as much, but it's so difficult to let go and accept all the wrong notes.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Letting Go, Care, Accepting

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Want, Singers, Able

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Love Is, Feelings, Beginners

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I'll never be someone who's "been on the road."

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Land, World, Touring

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

• I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films. I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward, you know. It's so easy to say no to stuff, and then, after a while, it's very hard to go back in.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Father, Choices, Waiting

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

• I don't like being on my own. I'm happy meeting people and collaborating.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  People, Meetings, My Own

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.