Why French film icon Juliette Binoche isn’t worried about AI replacing human talent
Humanity and intuition are the secrets to great art, according to Juliette Binoche, who talks about her directorial debut In-I In Motion
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.
“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.”
Binoche is now an advocate for the physical experience, but it has not always been that way. She shares that she began her career as a “line-obsessed” actress who deeply feared forgetting her lines, but later sometimes tried going into scenes without preparation to “jump into a place that made me very uncomfortable”.
“To actually decide not to learn the lines was really dangerous for me, and it was interesting,” she says. “You feel what you need or don’t need. It’s not rational. It’s like painting, in a way; you just go with what you connect with.”
