I`d rather spend my time with grape growers than actors. In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema. There are fewer and fewer "films d`auteur" made by people like Ken Loach or Claude Chabrol. The cin...
Gerard Depardieu
I don`t think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings, and my first teacher was my mother [Niseema Theillaud] and then I worked with my father [Jean-Claude Cotillard], who helped me to find in myself all those emotions and ho...
Marion Cotillard
[During an interview on US television the interviewer asked who had inspired him] It was during my time at RADA, there was a man who inspired us all. Claude Rains. I don`t know what happened to him, I think he failed and went to America.
John Gielgud
I purposely would not go and see the old version of "Here Comes Mr. Jordan." They told me my part was played by Claude Rains, for whom I have an infinite admiration, and I knew I would never be as good as him.
James Mason
[About Claude Jade, who starred in Topaz (1969)] "Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don`t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi`s back seat."
Alfred Hitchcock
[About Claude Jade, who starred in Topaz (1969)] "Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don`t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi`s back seat."
Alfred Hitchcock
Sometimes I force myself. In the case of Domicile conjugal (1970) I laid down certain laws for myself. Henri Langlois, who loved Baisers volés (1968), said to me, `Now you have to get Jean-Pierre Léaud and Claude Jade married.`
Francois Truffaut
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.
Isabelle Huppert