86 Quotes by Isabelle Huppert

A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator,

I don't get many good offers. I like to follow the same kind of path I follow in France. If I don't feel the movie is very original or has a good amount of potential, I don't do it. In the films I've done I can feel I'm part of a specific universe, but those sorts of opportunities are quite rare.

I think movies say a lot [about real life], even more than theater. It says a lot about the invisible, that movies are so fascinating. The camera lens is like a microscope that goes beyond the surface. It's like you're exploring a secret, so you explore the director's secret, you explore the actor's secret, and therefore you explore the universe's secrets.

You could call it a collection of self-portraits. Each photographer has really photographed himself.

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.

I think that a sense of humor of an actor comes through most of the time. Maybe some actors have less than others, and I have it, I think. It’s my nature.

There are many different ways of being funny. I’m not sure that there’s so many different ways of being dramatic.

I don’t know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function – you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it’s more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

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.