Julian Eltinge
American actor and female impersonator (1881-1941)
Claude Henri Jean Chabrolwas a French film director and a member of the French New Wavegroup of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinema before beginning his career as a film maker.
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About the Claude Chabrol
Claude Henri Jean Chabrolwas a French film director and a member of the French New Wavegroup of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinema before beginning his career as a film maker.
Chabrol’s career began with Le Beau Serge- all featuring Stephane Audran, who was his wife at the time.
Sometimes characterized as a “mainstream” New Wave director, Chabrol remained prolific and popular throughout his half-century career. In 1978, he cast Isabelle Huppert as the lead in Violette Noziere. On the strength of that effort, the pair went on to others including the successful Madame Bovaryand La Ceremonie (1995). Film critic John Russell Taylor has stated that “there are few directors whose films are more difficult to explain or evoke on paper, if only because so much of the overall effect turns on Chabrol’s sheer hedonistic relish for the medium…Some of his films become almost private jokes, made to amuse himself.” James Monaco has called Chabrol “the craftsman par excellence of the New Wave, and his variations upon a theme give us an understanding of the explicitness and precision of the language of the film that we don’t get from the more varied experiments in genre of Truffaut or Godard.”
16 Quotes by Claude Chabrol
- 1.
First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.
Claude ChabrolFrench film director (1930-2010)
- 2.
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 ChabrolFrench film director (1930-2010)
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As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn’t, so making films would change nothing.
Claude ChabrolFrench film director (1930-2010)
- 4.
I’m not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.
Claude ChabrolFrench film director (1930-2010)
- 5.
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.
Claude ChabrolFrench film director (1930-2010)
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Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.
Claude ChabrolFrench film director (1930-2010)
- 7.
I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
Claude ChabrolFrench film director (1930-2010)
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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.
Claude ChabrolFrench film director (1930-2010)
- 9.
Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.
Claude ChabrolFrench film director (1930-2010)
- 10.
A woman is subject matter enough.
Claude ChabrolFrench film director (1930-2010)
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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.
Claude ChabrolFrench film director (1930-2010)
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A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.
Claude ChabrolFrench film director (1930-2010)
- 13.
I’m not wild about hand-held shots.
Claude ChabrolFrench film director (1930-2010)
- 14.
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.
Claude ChabrolFrench film director (1930-2010)
- 15.
I brought the film like a flower to the world.
Claude ChabrolFrench film director (1930-2010)
- 16.
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.
Claude ChabrolFrench film director (1930-2010)