Isabelle Huppert Quotes

In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.

I always want to go to the movies and watch something and be moved by something or feel things.

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

Personally I kept my feelings out of it and created a fantasy. That's the process of going through this world being beautiful.

IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.

Cinema and emotion trump reality for me.

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.

However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition.

I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand.

If you just think Donnie Darkos a weird movie, you don't want to think. You don't want to feel your feelings. So yeah, I do want to shake 'em up.

The cinema is death at work.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

The system [of thought] doesn't stay with the difficult problem that produces unpleasant feelings. It's conditioned somehow to move as fast as it can toward more pleasant feelings, without actually facing the thing that's making the unpleasant feeling.

To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.

For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Be open to your feelings and experience them while they are here. Then be open to the feelings that will come next. Your feelings are a part of your experience. Yet no mere feeling, however intense it may seem, is your permanent reality.

All mankind's inner feelings eventually manifest themselves as an outer reality.

The deeper I went into culture, the more confused I got. So I needed something more real. I said, "Okay, from now on, my country will be cinema."

The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling.

When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings.

Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.

He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.