Isabelle Huppert

“התיאטרון מהווה תמיד התנסות קשה.”

“מעולם לא חשבתי על השאלה אם להיות שחקנית תיאטרון או שחקנית קולנוע.”

“I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.”

“I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything.”

“Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.”

“Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.”

“I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.”

“When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it.”

“The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.”

“I really admire people who don’t need to live surrounded by lots of stuff. My bedroom is piled up with clothes and books, papers and photographs. I like to collect things, anything I can grab from wherever I’m travelling. I think it’s the sign of slight anxiety to always want something around you to represent a good moment you had, to hang on to the leftovers. But then they’re a pleasure to look at too, so it’s not all negative.”

“Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else.”

“Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.”

“But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people.”

“I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.”

“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.”

“Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.”

“Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real.”

“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.”

“For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!”

“For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top.”