Mathieu Amalric Quotes

Acting is about animality. It’s great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.

If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, its silly.

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I don’t know why.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.

I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don’t need to act to feel myself alive.

I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it’s the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director’s assistant, an editor.

If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, it’s silly.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I’d be acting in movies.

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did ‘Kings and Queen’, had this curious idea to think that I could be an actor, but I had never acted before, and I was supposed to direct my own film!

Im always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for years.

The body is something absolutely miraculous. It’s amazing, the five senses.