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" For working with non-professional actors, you have to have this particular desire to work with people who are reluctant to play in a movie. I like this relationship. I'm like a recruiter, an employment agency giving someone employment. "

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" When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story. "

Bruno Dumont

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" I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, because I have changed. If I continue to make films, in fact, it is because I always want to repair my films. My inner rhythm has changed; I have changed. I have changed my way to film. "

" To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless. "

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" Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me. "

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" Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist. "

" No movie can claim to be a work of philosophy. They fulfill a totally different need in people. "

" The actor already comes with emotions to the scene: fear, the fear of being in front of the camera. It is this fear that spurs the emotion of the scene. I too am afraid; I don't know exactly what I am searching for. On the set, we are all participating in this fear together. "

" I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.' "

" I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms. "

" An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them. "

" Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression. "

" I don't want actors to know anything. The more they are lost, the better they play. "

" Personally, I don't give a toss about French viewers. I make films for foreigners - it's a bit like Ken Loach, who's not very popular in England but has had a lot of success in France. Cinema is always an experience in a foreign body. "

Bruno Dumont

Cinema

Experience

" Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act ethically when they are emotionally touched. "

" The people follow what the media say. So if you said that Bruno Dumont is fantastic, it follows that more people would go to see my films. I have no wish to remain on the sidelines. I have no wish to make films that are only seen by bohemians in London and Paris. "

" Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man. "

" Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize. "

Bruno Dumont

Mind

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" There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves. "

" Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual. "

" You can't create a movie as you think about it. And what's in the scene is not what's being seen. A shot always means something other than what it is. All are vehicles. A landscape is just a vehicle. The viewer might think different things, and I'm not going to intervene. "

" Matching character and actor is what a good director does. "

" Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want. "

" I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers. "

" Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you. "