Claude Chabrol Quotes

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• I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
• Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
• We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.
• A woman is subject matter enough.
• As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.
• I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.
• I'm not wild about hand-held shots.
• Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.
• Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law
• 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…

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