French - Director | June 24, 1930 - September 12, 2010
I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.
Claude Chabrol
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I'm not wild about hand-held shots.
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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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Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.
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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.
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Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.
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I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.
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We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.
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There is no new wave, only the sea.
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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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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.
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Films with a message just make me laugh.
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