Eric Rohmer Quotes

• I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.

  Eric Rohmer

  Moving, People, Speak

  Eric Rohmer, Jean Narboni (1989). “Goput de la BeautGe. English”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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• You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

  Eric Rohmer

  Trends, Know How, Knows

  "The French revolutionary". Interview with Tobias Grey, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

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• I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

  Eric Rohmer

  Thinking, Ordinary, Ordinary Things

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• I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

  Eric Rohmer

  Art, Thinking, High Art

  "The French revolutionary". Interview with Tobias Grey, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

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• You can't think of nothing.

  Eric Rohmer

  Thinking

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• A good film is also a documentary

  Eric Rohmer

  Documentaries, Film, Good Films

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• But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing

  Eric Rohmer

  Thinking, Painful, Monopolizing

  Éric Rohmer (1980). “Six moral tales”, Viking Books

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• I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.

  Eric Rohmer

  Faithful, Subsidies, States

  "The French revolutionary". Interview with Tobias Grey, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

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• Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

  Eric Rohmer

  Civilization, Shapes, Film

  "FILM; Eric Rohmer Writes His Own 'Winter's Tale'" by John Rockwell, www.nytimes.com. March 27, 1994.

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• The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.

  Eric Rohmer

  Alliances, Difficulty

  "FILM; Eric Rohmer Writes His Own 'Winter's Tale'" by John Rockwell, www.nytimes.com. March 27, 1994.

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• The French are very individualistic.

  Eric Rohmer

  Individualistic

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