Isabelle Huppert Quotes

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

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 cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

But rather that we should lose our sense that neither can become the other, that the traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lense and the Cinerama screen tend to narrow it.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

Making movies is what I'm good at. Cinema is the means through which I can best express myself.

Since I started as an actress in the film industry, I realised the power of visuals and how that can fuel the imagination of our mind. It is very powerful. Therefore, I always cater to my own sensibility first and then to the world.

Artists are so blessed as we get to live so many lives while doing different films.

There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid.

Be it acting, writing, directing or producing, I love cinema. I love the art of telling stories and I'm happy doing one of the above or all of the above.

I want to make my kind of films but make them work commercially, too. When my presentation meets the director's imagination, the result will be great.

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.

I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong.

You have to remain strong. That's the kind of filmmaker I want to encourage. Orson Welles was the one who said, you know, you can learn anything you need to know about filmmaking- that's camera, sound, celluloid, video at this point- in four hours. It has nothing to do with anything. It has nothing to do with it... It has to do with what you want to say. If you feel you have something to say, you'll find that way to get it said, on film, and not let anyone or anything chip away at that or tarnish it, because it's something special and precious.

Storytelling is all about using the imagination, for me at least it is. That's why I'm bored sometimes to see movies. I'm bored to see TV. I never see TV. I see news sometimes. I'm sorry to say, I work in this business and I love working in it, but I haven't seen a movie in so many years.

I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.

Cinema is like dream.

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.