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It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

~Arnaud Desplechin

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I'm an absolute fan of Angela Bassett. I think she's a great, great actress. In the biopics, she is so moving. She's very rare. It's something that doesn't happen that much, to see an actress inventing a new way of showing 'woman' onscreen, and a new way of being beautiful.

~Arnaud Desplechin

Topics: Absolute Actress Beautiful Being Being Beautiful Fan Great Happen Inventing Moving Much New New Way Onscreen Rare See She Showing Something Think Very Way Woman I Think

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I love some films with very silent characters, people who don't speak, but I wouldn't be able to do that.

~Arnaud Desplechin

Topics: Able Characters Films Love People Silent Some Speak Very Who I Love

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I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.

~Arnaud Desplechin

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There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.

~Arnaud Desplechin

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Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.

~Arnaud Desplechin

Topics: About Best Best Way Characters Dream Each Each Time Even Fairy Fairy Tale Film Instead Love Nightmare Plot Real Real World Realism Settle Start Starting Tale Tell The Real World Think Time Truth Way Work World I Love

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I remember the first time I read Freud, I was 25 or 30, and I was expecting it to be about the Oedipus complex. But what I actually discovered confirmed my own common experience, that you also had little boys who loved their fathers and little girls who loved their mothers.

~Arnaud Desplechin

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I never rehearse scenes with the whole ensemble, because I need to preserve some surprise. Instead, I work with the cast individually on their characters.

~Arnaud Desplechin

Topics: Because Cast Characters Ensemble Individually Instead Need Never Preserve Rehearse Scenes Some Surprise Whole Work

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I'm a great fan of Woody Allen's movies.

~Arnaud Desplechin

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Usually in France we prefer to say bad things about the Nouvelle Vague, but I'm always impressed with its freedom and the fact of not making a film to give your opinion but just as a piece of art, which to me means the Nouvelle Vague.

~Arnaud Desplechin

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Director

Born: October 31st, 1960

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