If I seem detached or distant, it's because I think this is a more exact reproduction of life, where you hide as much as you show. When I see a scene…

- Isabelle Huppert

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

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 len…

- Isabelle Huppert

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 …

- Isabelle Huppert

I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.

- Isabelle Huppert

Balzac, you know, our great Balzac, he wrote interesting things about how in literature you keep distance in order to express great feelings. You hav…

- Isabelle Huppert

I don't have time, because I still have so many films to see.

- Isabelle Huppert

We all pretend to be very strong, and then in a fraction, you can just break down, at least for me.

- Isabelle Huppert

Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.

- Isabelle Huppert