Claude Chabrol quotes

Claude Chabrol was a renowned French director and a leading figure of the French New Wave. His films are known for their suspenseful narratives and sharp social critique. He is celebrated for his prolific career and profound influence on European cinema. Here are 23 of his quotes:

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things. (Claude Chabrol)

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

Claude Chabrol

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

Claude Chabrol

There is no new wave, only the sea.

Claude Chabrol

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

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, a little better than they were.

Claude Chabrol

A woman is subject matter enough.

Claude Chabrol

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

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 are easier to control.

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'm not wild about hand-held shots.

Claude Chabrol

Films with a message just make me laugh.

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 reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

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 was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

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

Claude Chabrol

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

Claude Chabrol

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

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 prefer not to write for specific people.

Claude Chabrol

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

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I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live. (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 in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.

Claude Chabrol

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

Claude Chabrol

Claude Chabrol

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Occupation: French Director
Born: June 24, 1930
Died: September 12, 2010
Quotes count: 23

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