Claude Chabrol Quotes

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.

I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

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.

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

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

I brought the film like a flower to the world.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

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