Quotes by
Louis Jouvet |
1887-1951 , French actor
Actor, director, designer, and technician, one of the most influential figures of the French theatre in the 20th century. Beginning as a pharmacist at his parents’ wishes, he soon turned to his real interest, the theatre.Jouvet introduced the playwright Jean Giraudoux and the designer Christian Bérard to the theatre, brought new insight to the interpretation of Molière’s plays, developed lighting techniques, created simplified but highly suggestive settings, and brought new importance to the interpretive power of the actor’s voice.
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Quotations
| • | The theater is one of those beehives where we transform the honey of the visible into the invisible. 5 |
| • | Cinema is canned theater. 4 |
| • | The theater is the domain of appearances. |
| • | A play is a conversation. |
| • | Condemned to explain the mystery of their life, men invented the theater. |
| • | Nothing more futile, more false, more vain, more necessary than the theater. |
| • | If the military administration was well done, there would be no unknown soldier. |
| • | We do theater because we have the impression of never having been ourselves and that we will finally be able to be. |
