Claude Chabrol

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible. ”

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none. ”

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were. ”

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. ”

I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing. ”

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious. ”

I'm not wild about hand-held shots. ”

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things. ”

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more. ”

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. ”