Alice Winocour Quotes

France, Screenwriter
January 13, 1976

Alice Winocour is a French screenwriter and director. After studying screenwriting at La Fémis, Winocour made three short films and wrote the script for Vladimir Perisic's film Ordinary People (released in 2009).

Also known as Film Director

I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff.

Alice Winocour
- War
- Violence
- Soldiers
I had experience with PTSD myself; probably that's why I felt so close to the soldiers and the testimony. Also, because I had experienced this myself, I wanted to make a really physical and carnal film.

Alice Winocour
- Film
- Soldiers
- PTSD

It's the doubt that is really a major ingredient of the paranoid thriller.

Alice Winocour
Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers].

Alice Winocour
- Death
- Felt
- PTSD