Claude Chabrol Quotes
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.
You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.
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.
Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.
Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
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.
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.
To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.
I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.
As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.
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.
First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.
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.