A great film is always a metaphor for the direction. A great director always says what he thinks of the cinema through his work, through a fictional story. It is always a reflection of what it is to be a director, what is a movie, what is an audience. It`...
I never feel I am playing characters. I play certain states, certain ranges of emotions, certain feelings. The contours of a character are something very vague. Initially, when I read a script, I have certain pieces or images that come up to the surface. ...
About `Funny Games`, and Austrian director Michael Haneke: I didn`t want to do it. The film was fascinating, but for an actress, it`s just incredibly hard to play. I regretted my decision later because it`s a really great film. But at the time, I just did...
Body language in the cinema is thus very particular. The screen can transmit an image very different of the body. In life, we see each other by facing each other. In the cinema, one is astonished to discover oneself from another angle. But at the same tim...
Acting is a way of living out one`s insanity.
