Chabrol Films Quotes & Sayings

Bike lane: the section of the road that accommodates wide loads and has speed bumps to protect drunk drivers. — Bauvard

There's one thing which I hate about color films ... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color. — Claude Chabrol

I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person you shouldn't. — Ronald Frame

It's not necessary to have read everything about a particular subject in order to get interested in it. The main thing is to sort out what's important and what is peripheral in order to be able to dive in. — Francois Englert

There are tons of people who have made great music, great art, great whatever, but you don't know about them until the people lift you to a certain height so that you could even be visible and get any kind of recognition. — Pharrell Williams

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic. — Bruce Feiler

They say your hardcore's not yours, and it's not fate. Nobody's gonna tell you what shit like that means. — Noah Wareness

The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control. — Claude Chabrol

Einstein's claim that change is an illusion. Things do not become, they have not been, and they will not be: They simply are. — A.A. Attanasio

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations. — Beatrix Potter

We were battered and dinged, both well past the weight limit in personal baggage. And, like the rest of humanity, it would be our destiny to be tossed and torn by events unseen and unplanned. But that didn't stop me from hoping we could somehow navigate it together. — Paula Garner

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

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one. — Robert Frost

My Pirelli calendar is hanging on the wall of my friend's frat house, and he doesn't know anything about fashion. That balance is what leads to big campaigns outside of fashion. But I never want to choose one or the other. Both commercial and high fashion are what make my job so interesting. — Gigi Hadid

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. — Billy Graham

God's voice is still and small, the voice of a sparrow in a cyclone, so said the prophet Isaiah, and we all say thankya. It's hard to hear a small voice clearly if you're shitass drunk most of the time. — Stephen King

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

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure. — Stendhal

Films with a message just make me laugh. — Claude Chabrol