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All Quotes by author - Claude Chabrol
" As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing. "
Either
Far
Nothing
" A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible. "
Men
Confronting
Proper
" A woman is subject matter enough. "
Matter
Woman
Enough
" Films with a message just make me laugh. "
Laugh
Make Me Laugh
Message
" First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law. "
Licence
First
Law
" I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest. "
Harvest
I Am
Wheat
" I brought the film like a flower to the world. "
World
Film
Like
" 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 easier to control. "
Control
Black And White
Color
" I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things. "
Love
Through
Things
" I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live. "
People
Only
Way
" I'm not wild about hand-held shots. "
Wild
Shots
About
" 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 down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing. "
War
Money
Down
" 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 not to write for specific people. "
Wrong
Interesting
Habits
" 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 for making a film that is about stupid people. "
I Can
Film
Stupid
" Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious. "
Obvious
Freedom
Being
" 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 a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more. "
Father
More
Medicine
" Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen. "
Color
You
Want
" Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none. "
Intelligence
Stupidity
More
" There is no new wave, only the sea. "
Sea
New
Only
" 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 to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color. "
Working
Money
People
" To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them. "
Stupid
Feel
Individual
" We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police. "
Police
Faster
Where
" You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue. "
Sometimes
Accept
Fact
" 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 little better than they were. "
Help
Better
Think
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