Claude Chabrol Quotes

I`m not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

There was one thing which I thought was tremendous fun, namely finding as many angles as possible within the confines of a single room.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn`t, so making films would change nothing.

I`m not wild about hand-held shots.

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.

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

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.

Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

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 love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

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.

A woman is subject matter enough.

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.

I brought the film like a flower to the world.

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.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

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.