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" Acting is a way of living out one's insanity. "
Acting
Way
Insanity
" Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug. "
Short
You
Evening
" But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach. "
Piano
Music
Studying
" But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing. "
Nothing
Energy
Me
" 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. "
Like
Society
People
" But theatre is always a difficult experience. "
Difficult
Theatre
Always
" Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real. "
Real
Knowing
Difficult
" Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture. "
You
Voice
Theatre
" For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music. "
Time
Think
Rhythm
" For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at! "
World
Gift
Listening
" 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. "
Nice
Me
Fall
" Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film. "
Experience
Film
Going
" I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work. "
Lot
Film
Work
" 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. "
Living
You
Yourself
" 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. "
Always
Tragedy
Possible
" 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. "
Way
You
Bad
" I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress. "
Should
Actress
Stage
" I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything. "
Talent
You
More
" 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. "
Feel
Go
Difficult
" My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything. "
Catholic
Mom
Want
" 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. "
Why
Deep
Desire
" Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers. "
Europeans
Perhaps
More
" The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre. "
More
Theatre
Than
" 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. "
Time
You
Wonder
" Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else. "
Me
Sacrifice
Space
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