86 Quotes by Isabelle Huppert

If on paper one would say, “You’re gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley,” you say, “No, I’m not going to be able to.” Very often, very quickly you forget about it.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Acting is a way of living out one’s insanity.

But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it’s just a normal thing.