Claude Chabrol Quotes

• I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

  Claude Chabrol

  Love, Mirrors, Surface

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• You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

  Claude Chabrol

  Pigeons, Facts, Sometimes

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• We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.

  Claude Chabrol

  Police, Eras, Faster

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

  Claude Chabrol

  Stupidity, Intelligence, Limits

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• There is no new wave, only the sea.

  Claude Chabrol

  Art, Sea, Wave

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

  Claude Chabrol

  Thinking, People, Littles

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• A woman is subject matter enough.

  Claude Chabrol

  Matter, Enough, Subject Matter

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• A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

  Claude Chabrol

  Men, Subjects, Confronting

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• I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.

  Claude Chabrol

  Mean, Wheat, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

  Claude Chabrol

  People, Pessimistic, Way

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• To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

  Claude Chabrol

  Stupid, Individual, Should

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• I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.

  Claude Chabrol

  Black And White, Color, Shooting

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• I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

  Claude Chabrol

  Hands, Shots

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• Films with a message just make me laugh.

  Claude Chabrol

  Laughing, Messages, Film

  "Surfer on the new wave" by Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2001.

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• On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon. Jeanne is the vowel and Sophie the consonant. Psychologists know this phenomenon well. Each individual is harmless, but together they create an explosive chemical reaction. It's like Bonnie and Clyde, like Thelma and Louise.

  Claude Chabrol

  Character, Together, Sophie

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• I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

  Claude Chabrol

  Stupid, People, Film

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• As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

  Claude Chabrol

  Film, Homosexual, Concerned

  "Surfer on the new wave". Interview with Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2001.

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• I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

  Claude Chabrol

  Wall, War, Fall

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• Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

  Claude Chabrol

  Color, Want, Difficult

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• It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.

  Claude Chabrol

  Writing, People, Interesting

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• First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.

  Claude Chabrol

  Law, Firsts, Study

  "Surfer on the new wave" by Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2001.

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• My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

  Claude Chabrol

  Father, Doctors, Medicine

  "Surfer on the new wave" by Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2001.

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• I like to have the screen full of color, twenty colors on the screen at once, fifty colors. There are no dominants despite what people have said.

  Claude Chabrol

  Color, People, Fifty

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• There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.

  Claude Chabrol

  Hate, Color, People

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• Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

  Claude Chabrol

  Track, Giving, Laying Down

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