Bruno Dumont Quotes

• The landscape is a reflection of the inner life. Since I can't shoot the inner life, all I can shoot is the exterior but I know that when I'm filming outside, I'm filming inside. I can only really touch the inside through the mise-en-scene. So through the mise-en-scene of the outside we can explore the inside

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  Reflection, Landscape, Scene

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• Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

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  Light, Shadow, Cinema

  "Juliette Binoche Honored at the Marrakesh International Film Festival" by Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2013.

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• There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.

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  Atheist, People, Saint

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• There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe [despite recent developments]. Historically the "America" of this myth is an incredible human adventure and an experiment in political democracy. But at the same time, or so we're told, it's the land of extremes where the worst can happen.

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  Adventure, Europe, Land

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

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  Girl, Fighting, Men

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• Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

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  Evil, Good And Evil, Concepts

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments... voila, it gets crude.

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  Sex, Violent, Crude

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I like the idea of challenging Hollywood on its own turf. It's important to do that.

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  Ideas, Challenges, Important

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

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  Needs, Actors, Instruments

  "Juliette Binoche Honored at the Marrakesh International Film Festival". Interview with Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2013.

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• You can't go further than being naked.

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  Naked

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself project his own assumptions and sentiments onto the screen.

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  Narrative, Quiet, Assumption

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on what makes you scared in cinema, can be ditched. It's the spectator, finally, who's going to construct the menace and the fear.

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  Thinking, Suspense, Cinema

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come here, select some elements from the prototype and rearrange them, that's really interesting artistically.

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  Economic Models, Interesting, Political

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

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  Liberty, Sound, Want

  "French Director Bruno Dumont on Outside Satan : 'No God but Cinema'” by Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

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  Country, Artist, Dignity

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• My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

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  Cinema, Life Is

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• Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

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  Character, Directors, Doe

  "Marrakech Film Festival Masterclass: Bruno Dumont Gives Tips on Editing, Directing Actors and More" by Eric Hynes, www.indiewire.com. December 4, 2013.

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• Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

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  Depressing, Hollywood Films, Space

  "French Director Bruno Dumont on Outside Satan : 'No God but Cinema'” by Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me. I use direct sound, mono not stereo. Just direct sound, so for every shot there are only two sources. Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

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  Depressing, Hollywood Films, Two

  "French Director Bruno Dumont on Outside Satan: 'No God but Cinema'". Interview with Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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