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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I like to have the screen full of color, twenty colors on the screen at once, fifty colors. There are no dominants despite what people have said.
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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.