You make a film to distract people, to.. Claude Chabrol

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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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Claude Chabrol

Profession: Film Director
Nationality: French

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

There is no new wave, only the sea.

Films with a message just make me laugh.

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

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

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

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