Bruno Dumont

“Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the people want to see. So if the people want to see Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise, then it is really my job to incorporate them into my films.”

“Matching character and actor is what a good director does.”