To be "here and now," in principle, is just for once. And then you have to repeat that.
Isabelle HuppertBut on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.
Isabelle HuppertWhen you're an actress you are in a very specific position, cerebrally, I would think you know. You are a thinking person but you are in a certain perception of the world between really being conceptual and completely stupid. So you are in between, with a lot of intuition and instinct. And that's not completely being intellectual because I think intuition is more blurred. It comes from intuition. Instinct. More than really reasoning.
Isabelle HuppertMy mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.
Isabelle HuppertI 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 lens is like a microscope that goes beyond the surface. It's like you're exploring a secret, so you explore the director's secret, you explore the actor's secret, and therefore you explore the universe's secrets.
Isabelle Huppert