Claude Chabrol Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.”

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

“I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.”

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

“As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.”

“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.”

“A woman is subject matter enough.”

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

“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.”