Quotes by Bruno Dumont - Page 1

You can't go further than being naked.
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My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life
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Cinema
Life Is
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An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.
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Actors
Instruments
Needs
Instrument
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Matching character and actor is what a good director does.
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Character
Directors
Doe
Matching
Actor
Director
Good Director
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Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.
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Concepts
Evil
Good And Evil
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Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments... voila, it gets crude.
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Crude
Sex
Violent
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I like the idea of challenging Hollywood on its own turf. It's important to do that.
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Challenges
Ideas
Important
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No movie can claim to be a work of philosophy. They fulfill a totally different need in people.
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Work People Need
Claim
Fulfill
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Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.
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Cinema
Light
Shadow
Transgression
Forth
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Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.
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Cinema
Determined
Relevant
Relationship Yourself Your
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Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
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Cinema
Arrive
Worker
Filming
Mechanical
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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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Artist
Country
Critical
Dignity
Worthless
Retain
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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.
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Cinema
Fingers
Count
Few People
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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.
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Intimate
Liberty
Sound
Want
Creates
Sensation
Viewer
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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.
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Atheist
People
Saint
God I Am People
Elevated
Saints
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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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Space
Depressing
Dialogue
Hollywood Films
Depress
Spectator
Viewer
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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.
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Imagination
Abstraction
Criticise
Expected
Type
Vision
Exist
Explain
Necessarily
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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.
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Cinema
Sensitive
Touched
Emotionally
Ethically
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The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself project his own assumptions and sentiments onto the screen.
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Assumption
Narrative
Quiet
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The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
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Girl
Men
Battle
Conflict
Desire
Fighting
Israel
Land
Palestine
Fight
Difference
No Difference
Piece
Triangle
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I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the people want to see. So if the people want to see Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise, then it is really my job to incorporate them into my films.
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Cruise
General Public
Political People Feel
Depp
Johnny
Incorporate
Johnny Depp
Tom
Tom Cruise
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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.'
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Cinema
Creating
Don't Care
Physique
Shock
Physical
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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.
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Cinema
Foreigners
France
Toss
Viewers
French
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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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Relationship
Agency
Desire
Employment
Giving
Particular
Reluctant
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The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come here, select some elements from the prototype and rearrange them, that's really interesting artistically.
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Economic Models
Interesting
Political
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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.
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Catholic
Christianity
Obsessed
Redemption
Religious
Sacred
Spirituality
Stupid
Time God Believe
God Time Believe
French
French People
Present
Question
Terms
Same Time
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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.
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Sidelines
People Media See
Follows
More People
Remain
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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.
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No Point
Social Problems
Preoccupied
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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.
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Rhythm
Inner
Repair
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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.
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Different Things
Landscape
Vehicle
Intervene
Viewer
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My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on what makes you scared in cinema, can be ditched. It's the spectator, finally, who's going to construct the menace and the fear.
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Cinema
Suspense
Thinking
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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.
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Emotion
Participating
Spurs
Exactly What
Searching
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The landscape is a reflection of the inner life. Since I can't shoot the inner life, all I can shoot is the exterior but I know that when I'm filming outside, I'm filming inside. I can only really touch the inside through the mise-en-scene. So through the mise-en-scene of the outside we can explore the inside
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Landscape
Reflection
Scene
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There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe [despite recent developments]. Historically the "America" of this myth is an incredible human adventure and an experiment in political democracy. But at the same time, or so we're told, it's the land of extremes where the worst can happen.
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Adventure
Europe
Land
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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.
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Capable
Cinema
Memories
Nostalgia
Naturally
Apologize
Builds
Critic
Finger
For Example
He Or She
Prone
Reconstruct
Spectator
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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. I use direct sound, mono not stereo. Just direct sound, so for every shot there are only two sources. 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.
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Depressing
Hollywood Films
Two
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