Bruno Dumont Quotes

Bruno Dumont — French Director born on March 14, 1958,

Bruno Dumont is a French film director and screenwriter. To date, he has directed seven feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumont's films have won the Grand Prix award: both L'Humanité and Flandres. Dumont's Hadewijch won the 2009 Prize of the International Critics for Special Presentation at the Toronto Film Festival... (wikipedia)

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Bruno Dumont Quotes

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