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There is something about poverty that smells like death. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#death #like #poverty #smells #something

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

#fall #films #going #know #like

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#one thing #science #sides #thing #things

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. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#anything #being #cope #else #express

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. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#bad #before #complex #dramatic #field

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. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#act #amount #being #big #difficult

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#anything #catholic #dad #jew #mom

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

#decision #deep #desire #film #how

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

#because #before #else #experience #fiction

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#character #crimes #dramatic #fear #germany