Top 58 Dumont Quotes
#1. A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.
Leon Askin
#2. I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane) Alberto Santos-Dumont
Alberto Santos-Dumont
#3. 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.
Bruno Dumont
#4. It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor.
Leon Askin
#5. To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.
Leon Askin
#6. Magnus did not like to go near the Hotel Dumont if he could help it. It was decrepit and unsettling, it held bad memories, and it also occasionally held his evil former lady love.
Cassandra Clare
#7. Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.
Leon Askin
#8. 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.
Bruno Dumont
#9. 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.'
Bruno Dumont
#10. An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.
Bruno Dumont
#11. 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.
Bruno Dumont
#12. Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
Bruno Dumont
#13. 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.
Bruno Dumont
#14. I definitely am the sort of person that likes to be constantly learning things.
Emma Dumont
#15. 'One More Summer' is one of those songs that I think will go over really well.
Tom Dumont
#16. I'm a straight lady, the best in Hollywood. There is an art to playing the straight role. You must build up your man, but never top him, never steal the laughs.
Margaret Dumont
#17. Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.
Bruno Dumont
#18. 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.
Bruno Dumont
#19. 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.
Bruno Dumont
#20. What beauty would we see around us, if for just one second we could acknowledge the beauty that lies within ourselves?
Monica Dumont
#21. If exercise was sold in the pill form, it would be the number pill sold throughout the world because the benefits are endless.
Renee Dumont
#22. 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.
Bruno Dumont
#23. I can see that you have made your decision, but I wonder if you will become tired and discouraged. Me - I will never give up.
Gabriel Dumont
#25. Matching character and actor is what a good director does.
Bruno Dumont
#26. Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.
Bruno Dumont
#27. 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.
Bruno Dumont
#28. I'm not sure if the shame/guilt distinction resonates for me. I just know that shame is a debilitating emotion that is perpetuated by Church and State.
Marilyn Dumont
#29. One of the fun things about playing live is watching the audience sing the songs back to us.
Tom Dumont
#30. 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.
Bruno Dumont
#31. 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.
Bruno Dumont
#32. Moss is selected to be the emblem of maternal love, because, like that love, it glads the heart when the winter of adversity overtakes us, and when summer friends have deserted us.
Henrietta Dumont
#33. The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
#34. 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.
Bruno Dumont
#35. 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.
Bruno Dumont
#36. To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.
Bruno Dumont
#37. 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.
Bruno Dumont
#38. I did an episode of a show called 'Mind Games,' which is no longer on the air, and it was an intellectual comedy-drama. It was just really smart TV.
Emma Dumont
#39. My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life
Bruno Dumont
#40. I like the idea of challenging Hollywood on its own turf. It's important to do that.
Bruno Dumont
#41. The whole crowd interrupted and told him, 'No, we won't let you go. You have worked hard for our rights and you can't quit now.'
'Then,' said Riel, 'if I must, I will desert.'
'If you desert, we will desert with you.
Gabriel Dumont
#42. No movie can claim to be a work of philosophy. They fulfill a totally different need in people.
Bruno Dumont
#43. We wonder what true happiness would be like. Not realizing that one simple thought connected to our hearts can make the difference between us wondering and experiencing it.
Monica Dumont
#44. Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments ... voila, it gets crude.
Bruno Dumont
#45. Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.
Bruno Dumont
#46. I was on a TV show about dancers for two and a half seasons called 'Bunheads' on ABC Family, and that was really fun for me because I'm a dancer in a real life.
Emma Dumont
#47. I am aware that I am extremely fortunate that I was born to parents who had the personal resources to raise me in a relatively safe environment and that I have some social supports that keep me from the streets. I'm aware that I could easily be in their stead, but there by the grace of luck go I.
Marilyn Dumont
#48. When a small night-lamp alone illuminated our love-making, it became a very small, circular room which silently passed through nights humming with stars.
Fernand Dumont
#49. 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.
Bruno Dumont
#50. 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.
Bruno Dumont
#51. Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.
Bruno Dumont
#52. 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.
Bruno Dumont
#53. 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.
Bruno Dumont
#54. 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.
Bruno Dumont
#55. A woman not yet seen, but whose perfume accumulates on the horizon like a storm cloud.
Fernand Dumont
#56. To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
#57. I don't want actors to know anything. The more they are lost, the better they play.
Bruno Dumont
#58. 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.
Bruno Dumont
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