Abdellatif Hammouchi Quotes

#1. I don't come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a great job and connect with their actors and lead them to excellent performances without themselves having had an acting background. #Quote by Abdellatif Kechiche

#2. [ Blue is the Warmest Color ] was really a film about two people having to go through a relationship which everyone knew would lead to a breakup and the pain that that entails. Anybody can see that story, what leads to that, and identify with it. As a filmmaker, I wanted to construct this identification process with the characters so that you fully connect to their emotions and what their breakup [represents]. #Quote by Abdellatif Kechiche

#3. The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film. #Quote by Abdellatif Kechiche

#4. This film [ Blue is the Warmest Color] actually is the result of me talking with my producer Vincent [Maraval]. I gave him a bunch of ideas and then Vincent helped guide me and develop this particular film. I enjoy that rapport to have somebody else help guide me in my choices for the next film. The poetic way of looking at it is which project is going to choose me as a director. #Quote by Abdellatif Kechiche

#5. Every day, there's that tension and the pressure. Each scene that you shoot is like getting to that next step, but there's still that mountain to climb. So it's not like one day is harder or one scene is harder. They are all equally challenging. #Quote by Abdellatif Kechiche

#6. I have many projects in various states of development. Some are on paper and some are in my head. But as I go on, I feel the need to be guided in my choices. #Quote by Abdellatif Kechiche

#7. In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life. #Quote by Abdellatif Laabi

#8. But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone telling me which is the best path, without anyone laughing at the giant's wings and the dwarf's legs that impede my gait. #Quote by Abdellatif Laabi

#9. My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman. #Quote by Abdellatif Kechiche

#10. But, after all these years, you're not prepared to swear to anything. This is, in any case, one of the first principles of the conduct which now imposes itself on you and becomes part of your ethics-in-formation. Also perhaps just an acquired deformation -- you are always on the look-out, with a feeling of always being followed, totally alert, watching for the smallest gesture, the least word which might be a prey for the eyes and ears in the walls. Being under close observation creates bizarre reactions. One eventually begins to spy upon oneself, one interiorises suspicion. Watchfulness as a psychic phenomenon is nothing other than this internal splitting. #Quote by Abdellatif Laabi

#11. What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship. #Quote by Abdellatif Kechiche