After more than four decades of working with world-renowned European auteurs, from Krzysztof Kieślowski and Michael Haneke to Olivier Assayas and Claire Denis, French actress Juliette Binoche has simple advice for creating great art that moves people: be very human and trust one’s intuition.
“The purpose of films is to transform the audience so they become richer at the end of watching a film. It is nourishing their soul and putting questions in their lives,” she says in an interview at the 50th Hong Kong International Film Festival. “From my experience, when you start with the body, you’re usually not wrong, acting-wise. It’s always truthful.
“If you’re too much in your head and don’t relate it to your body, acting becomes nothing; it becomes something intellectual that you don’t actually receive as an audience.”
