Catherine Deneuve Quotes About Film
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I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.
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I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.
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Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.
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Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.
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Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
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I did important films when I was very young.
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Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.
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Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.
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Sometimes, if you're shooting a complicated scene, you have to stay in a position and wait for the technician to do his job, and then you have to be where you're supposed to be, right on the spot. You don't rehearse all that much on films. If I think of the amount of time I spend on set compared with the time spent shooting, it's ridiculously short.
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I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very special. It was a modern opera, and to play the heroine in a film that became such a success at a young age, and learning from him when I was so young and impressionable - really it was one of my most important experiences.
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That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.
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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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I love to not work. I love to go to the movies, I like to travel... I think I work maybe half the year. Sometimes, people think I've done three films in a year, but it's because I did a participation [cameo?] in a film. But I work for half a year, no more.
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I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.
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I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.
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