French - Director | June 24, 1930 - September 12, 2010
You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.
Claude Chabrol
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I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
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Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
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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.
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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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I brought the film like a flower to the world.
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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.
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A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.
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A woman is subject matter enough.
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First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.
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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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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.
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