Claude Chabrol

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

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— Claude Chabrol

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

— 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

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine;…

— Claude Chabrol

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

— Claude Chabrol

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

— Claude Chabrol

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

— Claude Chabrol

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

— Claude Chabrol

There is no new wave, only the sea.

— Claude Chabrol

A woman is subject matter enough.

— Claude Chabrol

I brought the film like a flower to the world.

— Claude Chabrol

There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working…

— Claude Chabrol

Films with a message just make me laugh.

— Claude Chabrol