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" I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live. "
Claude Chabrol
People
Only
Way
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" I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things. "
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" 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. "
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Wrong
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" 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. "
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More
Medicine
" Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen. "
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Color
You
Want
" To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them. "
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Stupid
Feel
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" A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible. "
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Men
Confronting
Proper
" First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law. "
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Licence
First
Law
" I brought the film like a flower to the world. "
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World
Film
Like
" 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. "
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War
Money
Down
" You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue. "
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Sometimes
Accept
Fact
" 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. "
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Working
Money
People
" Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none. "
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Intelligence
Stupidity
More
" Films with a message just make me laugh. "
Claude Chabrol
Laugh
Make Me Laugh
Message
" There is no new wave, only the sea. "
Claude Chabrol
Sea
New
Only
" 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. "
Claude Chabrol
Help
Better
Think
" 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. "
Claude Chabrol
I Can
Film
Stupid
" As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing. "
Claude Chabrol
Either
Far
Nothing
" 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. "
Claude Chabrol
Control
Black And White
Color
" A woman is subject matter enough. "
Claude Chabrol
Matter
Woman
Enough
" I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest. "
Claude Chabrol
Harvest
I Am
Wheat
" We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police. "
Claude Chabrol
Police
Faster
Where