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Claude Chabrol Biography

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (French: [klod ʃabʁɔl]; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group 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.

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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.

Color, Films, Hate, Laboratory, Make, People

Films with a message just make me laugh.

Film, Films, Laugh, Laughing, Message, Messages

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.

Color, Full, People, Said, Twenties, Twenty

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

Mean, Wheat, Film, Harvest, Make

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

Freedom, Giving, Laying, Laying Down, Obvious, Track

It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.

Ends, Interesting, People, Prefer, Write, Writing

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.

Became, Doctors, Father, Like, Longer, Medicine

I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

Hands, Shots, Wild

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.

Help, Littles, Make, People, Think, Thinking

A woman is subject matter enough.

Enough, Matter, Subject, Subject Matter

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.

Class, Down, Fall, Wall, War

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

Accept, Facts, Pigeon, Pigeons, Sometimes, Statue

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.

Deeply, Film, Make, Making, People, Stupid

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

Change, Concerned, Film, Homosexual, Nothing

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law

Firsts, Law, Lettres, Study

Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

Color, Colors, Difficult, Screen, Want

On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon. Jeanne is the vowel and Sophie the consonant. Psychologists know this phenomenon well. Each individual is harmless, but together they create an explosive chemical reaction. It's like Bonnie and Clyde, like Thelma and Louise.

Character, Explosive, Psychologists, Together, Vowel, Weapons