Top 24 Quotes by Claude Chabrol

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

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

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

I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

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

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.

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.

I brought the film like a flower to the world.