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Philippe Claudel

Philippe Claudel (born 2 February 1962) is a French writer and film director.

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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.

Air, Away, Hands, Marshal, Write, Writing

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.

Choose, Cooking, Like, Making, Soul, Yield

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.

Counter, Films, Medium, Running, Technique, Writing

An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.

Artist, Transcribe, Tries, Trying, World

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.

Pain, People, Successful, Suffering, Thrillers

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.

Goal, Mind, Sees, Thing, Tool, Writing

I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.

Like, Rhythm, Speed, Thrillers

Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.

Against, Film, Mood, People, Question, Subjects

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.

Writing, Thinking, People, Pose, Think, Make

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