“For one never makes a film out of nothing. To shoot a film is always to shoot something, be it fiction or reality, and the more shaky the reality, the more solid the fiction must be.” — Eric Rohmer Copy Share Image
I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show people who… — Eric Rohmer Copy Share
“I never said it was her and I thought I'd seen that look before. But every time a woman looks at me it feels… — Éric Rohmer Copy Share
“For one never makes a film out of nothing. To shoot a film is always to shoot something, be it fiction or reality, and… — Eric Rohmer Copy Share
“But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all...” — Éric Rohmer Copy Share
I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me. — Eric Rohmer Copy Share
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before. — Eric Rohmer Copy Share
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… — Eric Rohmer Copy Share
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. — Eric Rohmer Copy Share
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another. — Eric Rohmer Copy Share
