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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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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Films with a message just make me laugh.
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I'm not wild about hand-held shots.
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A woman is subject matter enough.
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We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.
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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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I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.
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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 have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.
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Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
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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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There is no new wave, only the sea.
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I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
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There was one thing which I thought was tremendous fun, namely finding as many angles as possible within the confines of a single room.