Claude Chabrol Quotes

There is no new wave, only the sea.

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

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

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

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

I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

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

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

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

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

A woman is subject matter enough.

I brought the film like a flower to the world.

Films with a message just make me laugh.

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

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

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

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.

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