Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol
Claude Henri Jean Chabrolwas a French film director and a member of the French New Wavegroup of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth24 June 1930
CountryFrance
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There was one thing which I thought was tremendous fun, namely finding as many angles as possible within the confines of a single room.
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I must admit that this film echoes the Elf affair in France. I found the real case on TV so entertaining.
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Every time I saw the Elf affair on television, I switched on the set because I found it incredibly funny. I thought that, if we could put that it in a film, it would give people watching it a certain amusement to see these people in their true ridiculousness.
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You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.
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To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.
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I'm not wild about hand-held shots.
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We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.
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A woman is subject matter enough.
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A woman is subject matter enough.
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Films with a message just make me laugh.
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Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
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As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.
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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.
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First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law