Eric Rohmer Quotes & Sayings

A good film is also a documentary — Eric Rohmer

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. — Eric Rohmer

The French are very individualistic. — Eric Rohmer

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before. — Eric Rohmer

For one never makes a film out of nothing. To shoot a film is always to shoot something, be it fiction or reality, and the more shaky the reality, the more solid the fiction must be. — Eric Rohmer

I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me. — Eric Rohmer

But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing — Eric Rohmer

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another. — Eric Rohmer

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times. — Eric Rohmer

I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either. ... I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject. — Eric Rohmer

You can't think of nothing. — Eric Rohmer

The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties. — Eric Rohmer