Quotes by Claude Chabrol

About Claude Chabrol:

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker.
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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

Films with a message just make me laugh.

Claude Chabrol

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

Claude Chabrol

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

Claude Chabrol

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

Claude Chabrol

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

Claude Chabrol

A woman is subject matter enough.

Claude Chabrol

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

Claude Chabrol

I brought the film like a flower to the world.

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

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

Claude Chabrol

I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

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

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

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

Claude Chabrol

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

Claude Chabrol

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

Claude Chabrol

There is no new wave, only the sea.

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

Author Bio

  • NameClaude Chabrol
  • DescriptionFrench film director, screenwriter, film producer and actor
  • BornJune 24, 1930
  • DiedSeptember 12, 2010
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Film Actor; Press Agent; Screenwriter; Film Producer; Film Critic