Top 33 Claude Chabrol Quotes
#1. But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people.
Isabelle Huppert
#2. You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.
Claude Chabrol
#3. Marriage, each of them realized intuitively, was about compromise and forgiveness. It was about balance, where one person complemented the other.
Nicholas Sparks
#4. We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.
Claude Chabrol
#5. 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
#6. 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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#8. I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
Claude Chabrol
#10. I like to have the screen full of color, twenty colors on the screen at once, fifty colors. There are no dominants despite what people have said.
Claude Chabrol
#11. Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.
Claude Chabrol
#12. 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
#14. As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#17. Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.
Claude Chabrol
#18. First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.
Claude Chabrol
#19. 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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#20. I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.
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#21. 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
#22. On March 8 a poll showed Hart 9 points ahead of Reagan. So perhaps 60 million Americans, 55 million of whom had not heard of Hart a month ago, have suddenly decided thay want him to be leader of the free world. The public mind is not just soft wax, it's runny.
George Will
#23. A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.
Claude Chabrol
#25. 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
#26. 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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#28. 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.
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#29. brace covered his neck. Dark, fingerless gloves covered his hands to allow a better grip on his shotgun. An aluminum baseball bat was slung across his back, Samurai-style, in a crude scabbard next to a large backpack He
Keith C. Blackmore
#30. I think an editing style is something that is ascribed to the work after-the-fact. I don't think you go in with a particular intention, but I think if there is an integrity to the work and the material you are working with, the work comes from the nature of that material.
Jay Cassidy
#31. Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
Claude Chabrol
#32. I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.
Claude Chabrol
#33. 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
