"Isabelle is both intimate and distant, intelligent, cold, burning — and prepared to do anything to act. She gives herself to others while at the same time is absent; she is solitary and multiple in nature. One might say that this is true of all actresses. But in Isabelle there is something like a fatal eagerness she has taken upon herself." - Patrice Chéreau

I’d be happy to learn to play. But not if we only ever play by your rules.
La pianiste, Michael Haneke (2001)