Philippe Claudel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words grow very docile, they come and feed out of my hand like little birds, and I can do almost what I want with them; whereas when I try to marshal them in open air, they fly away from me.
-- Philippe Claudel

#Writing #Air #Hands
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.
-- Philippe Claudel

#Writing #Goal #Mind
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.
-- Philippe Claudel

#Writing #Thinking #People
An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.
-- Philippe Claudel

#Artist #Trying #World
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.
-- Philippe Claudel

#Running #Writing #Technique
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.
-- Philippe Claudel

#Yield #Cooking #Soul
I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.
-- Philippe Claudel

#Speed #Thrillers #Rhythm
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.
-- Philippe Claudel

#Pain #Successful #People
Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.
-- Philippe Claudel

#People #Film #Mood

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.
My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

Philippe Claudel famous quotes

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