#film

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

— Isabelle Huppert

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But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

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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. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

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Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

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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. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#film #how #just #time #why

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. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

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Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realise that it is going to come to an end at some stage. ↗

— John Hurt

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I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising. ↗

— John Hurt

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I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films. ↗

— John Hurt

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If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind. ↗

— John Hurt

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