Philippe Claudel Quotes

#1. My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward ... Making a film is like cooking a pot au feu. You choose the best carrots, the best potatoes the best meat, etc., and you throw all that together - but if there's no soul, so to speak, it won't yield much.

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#2. When you live among the flowers, you don't think about the mud.

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#3. It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's a different matter.

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#4. I think about the sincerity of my writing. I try to be true, to pose questions. Shake people up a bit and make them look in a direction they wouldn't normally.

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#5. I'm not imprisoned in any one medium. In films I use techniques that are not necessarily what other directors attempt. When I write novels I also use techniques which can run counter to those that a novelist would use.

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#6. Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.

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#7. In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write a screenplay, the language is just a transition, the final goal is a picture on the screen, it's the only thing the audience sees.

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#8. An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.

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#9. I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.

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#10. In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.

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#11. They shall arrive in a murmur
And shall disappear into fog and earth

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