I'm not pessimistic about people in ge.. Claude Chabrol

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

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Claude Chabrol

Profession: Film Director
Nationality: French

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A woman is subject matter enough.

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

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

I brought the film like a flower to the world.

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

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

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

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

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

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.

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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