40 Quotes by Claude Chabrol

I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

A woman is subject matter enough.

Every time I saw the Elf affair on television, I switched on the set because I found it incredibly funny. I thought that, if we could put that it in a film, it would give people watching it a certain amusement to see these people in their true ridiculousness.

There was one thing which I thought was tremendous fun, namely finding as many angles as possible within the confines of a single room.

I must admit that this film echoes the Elf affair in France. I found the real case on TV so entertaining.

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

I’m not wild about hand-held shots.

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that’s why we should never feel contempt for them.

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