Eric Rohmer Quotes

#1. I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

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#2. For one never makes a film out of nothing. To shoot a film is always to shoot something, be it fiction or reality, and the more shaky the reality, the more solid the fiction must be.

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#3. I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

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#4. You can't think of nothing.

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#5. I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either. ... I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.

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#6. The French are very individualistic.

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#7. The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.

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#8. A good film is also a documentary

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#9. I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.

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#10. You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

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#11. Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

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#12. But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing

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