Claude Chabrol Quotes

Claude Chabrol Quote

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

Love, Through, Pass

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

Stupidity, While, Limits

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.
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

Stupid, Moment, Wanted

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

Wrong, Often, Write

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

Live, Show, Police

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

Men, Woman, Subject

A woman is subject matter enough.
Claude Chabrol

Woman, Enough, Matter

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

Change, Nothing, Far

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

Law, Study, Started

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

Mean, Films, Communist

I brought the film like a flower to the world.
Claude Chabrol

Flower, Film, Brought

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

Black, Control, Making

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.
Claude Chabrol

Money, War, Someone

I'm not wild about hand-held shots.
Claude Chabrol

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.
Claude Chabrol

Freedom, Obvious, Gives

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.
Claude Chabrol

Father, Wanted, Himself

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

Difficult, Color, Colors

There is no new wave, only the sea.
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

Money, Hate, Working

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

Stupid, Why, Individual

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

Sometimes, Fact, Accept

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, Film, Less

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Nationality: French

Born: June 24, 1930

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