Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol
Claude Henri Jean Chabrolwas a French film director and a member of the French New Wavegroup of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth24 June 1930
CountryFrance
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Every time I saw the Elf affair on television, I switched on the set because I found it incredibly funny. I thought that, if we could put that it in a film, it would give people watching it a certain amusement to see these people in their true ridiculousness.
I brought the film like a flower to the world.
color want difficult
Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.
black-and-white color shooting
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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Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.
hate color people
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.
writing interesting people
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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A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.
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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.
stupid people film
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.
color people fifty
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.
law firsts study
First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law
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On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon. Jeanne is the vowel and Sophie the consonant. Psychologists know this phenomenon well. Each individual is harmless, but together they create an explosive chemical reaction. It's like Bonnie and Clyde, like Thelma and Louise.
mean wheat film
I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.