Woman Quotes by Claude Chabrol

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive,…

— Claude Chabrol

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

— Claude Chabrol

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

— Claude Chabrol

I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors…

— Claude Chabrol

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

— Claude Chabrol

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

— Claude Chabrol

On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon. Jeanne is…

— Claude Chabrol

I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

— Claude Chabrol

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

— Claude Chabrol

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…

— Claude Chabrol

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

— Claude Chabrol

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…

— Claude Chabrol

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be…

— Claude Chabrol

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

— Claude Chabrol

“On ne peut pas tout avoir. Et puis d'abord où le mettrait-on?”

— Claude Chabrol