Rohmer Quotes & Sayings

A good film is also a documentary — Eric Rohmer

For city dwellers like me who don't get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like you went to France for August, fell in love, got hurt, broke up, grew up, and figured some things out - all in 90 minutes or so. My favorite of Rohmer's cinematic escapes is 'La Collectionneuse.' — Jake Paltrow

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

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

There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others. — Sax Rohmer

There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life. — Sax Rohmer

There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity. — Sax Rohmer

You can't think of nothing. — 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 have to know how to go against the trend of the times. — Eric Rohmer

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another. — 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 don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me. — 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

Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present, with all the resources, if you will, of a wealthy government
which, however, already has denied all knowledge of his existence. Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man. — Sax Rohmer

Foreword by Major-General (Retired) Richard Rohmer Preface to the Fourth Paperback Edition Preface to the Third Paperback Edition Preface to the Second Paperback Edition Preface to the First Edition — Palmiro Campagna

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

How strangely does the adventurous intrude upon the humdrum; for, when it intrudes at all, more often than not its intrusion is sudden and unlooked for. To-day, we may seek for romance and fail to find it: unsought, it lies in wait for us at most prosaic corners of life's highway. — Sax Rohmer

The French are very individualistic. — Eric Rohmer

Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master. — Sax Rohmer