Claude Chabrol
Related ADELE JACKIE COLLINS Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions t... HAROLD BUDD ANN HOOD TEJU COLE If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are... PAUL SCHRADER Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions. GALEN ROWELL JAMES PATTERSON I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or st... TOM PERROTTA I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard... CATHERINE FISHER There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write. ANDREA BARRETT IDINA MENZEL DAVID BOWIE TOM DRURY I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I... NATHANIEL RICH JAMES ALLEN I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It'... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON ASHTON KUTCHER KRISTIN ARMSTRONG I prefer to write music for family films. I like people. ALEX NORTH PAUL THEROUX It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself... SAM DEW I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I ... PER PETTERSON MARK ZUCKERBERG AUNJANUE ELLIS PATRICK ROTHFUSS One of the things I’ve learnt about goals is people will write them or wrong them. ONYI ANYADO Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won'... YAHOO SERIOUS HELEN MIRREN I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that... CHARLES M. BLOW DAVE SIM I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, ... QUENTIN BLAKE WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN KARL ROVE KAREN BLACK When you write about faith, people will be upset with you no matter what. I've heard from reader... RAE CARSON TERENCE WINTER DAVID SCHWIMMER RAIN RUPAUL J. K. ROWLING Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is expl... CAROLYN CHUTE BRIAN SELZNICK The reason I quit being a sales manager over twenty years now is because I hate elevator pitches. I ... KURT BUSIEK When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the... RACHEL KUSHNER Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that a... DEB CALETTI VLADIMIR PUTIN I get really excited about specific therapies, personalized therapies. Like, let's say, taking a... MARY ROACH Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write ... BILL CALLAHAN I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting char... ELISABETH MOSS RAINBOW ROWELL HARVEY PEKAR Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having c... JERRY POURNELLE I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write ... CONOR MCPHERSON I think shrinks are interesting to write about because you get to see what the character chooses to ... JILL DAVIS RACHEL MADDOW BOB DYLAN SANHITA BARUAH ASTRO ZARA LARSSON There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. Wh... VALERIA GOLINO I write as if I'm someone reading the book - often people ask if I write one strand first and th... RUTH WARE I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - bu... YURI LOWENTHAL Because their proposal is based on rather specific models and assumptions and their is no current ev... PAUL STEINHARDT I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read nov... KAREN TRAVISS The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be inc... PAUL WESTERBERG JANE GOODALL When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort... LEWIS BLACK I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But t... MIKE ROWE SALMAN RUSHDIE I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time. ADAM RAPP LARRY DAVID WALTER GILBERT RAY CHARLES JESSICA ABEL Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what t... ISAIAH MUSTAFA 'Celebrate' is meant to be a guide to party planning and, as such, it has to cover the basic... PIPPA MIDDLETON For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I&#... KATE GRENVILLE FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. PAT CONROY DARREN ARONOFSKY I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They'r... BENNY BLANCO People infected with HIV often develop dementia as part of their illness, but there is currently no ... JEFFREY RUMBAUGH WILBUR SMITH Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day. E. L. JAMES KID ROCK I weave the company into what we laughingly call 'Jack's novel.' I write this novel for ... JACK O'BRIEN WILBUR SMITH S. E. HINTON I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it reall... DANIEL ALARCON Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I writ... P. N. ELROD I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre. DREW ROY R. KELLY NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover oth... PATRICIA REILLY GIFF CHRISTINE MCVIE JACK LEMMON MARK HADDON BRENT WEEKS A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to wor... MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
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There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing ... CLAUDE CHABROL To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never ... CLAUDE CHABROL Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupid... CLAUDE CHABROL A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible. CLAUDE CHABROL I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things. CLAUDE CHABROL I must admit that this film echoes the Elf affair in France. I found the real case on TV so entertai... CLAUDE CHABROL Every time I saw the Elf affair on television, I switched on the set because I found it incredibly f... CLAUDE CHABROL I thought the whole thing was so hilarious. I thought a film could show how ridiculous (corrupt exec... CLAUDE CHABROL My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed... CLAUDE CHABROL You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue. CLAUDE CHABROL I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment... CLAUDE CHABROL I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest. CLAUDE CHABROL I'm not wild about hand-held shots. CLAUDE CHABROL I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film... CLAUDE CHABROL First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law. CLAUDE CHABROL A woman is subject matter enough. CLAUDE CHABROL Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious. CLAUDE CHABROL I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live. CLAUDE CHABROL Films with a message just make me laugh. CLAUDE CHABROL We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police. CLAUDE CHABROL I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which sa... CLAUDE CHABROL As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change n... CLAUDE CHABROL You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help th... CLAUDE CHABROL Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the s... CLAUDE CHABROL I brought the film like a flower to the world. CLAUDE CHABROL There is no new wave, only the sea. CLAUDE CHABROL The century of airplanes has a right to its own music. CLAUDE DEBUSSY Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing bree... CLAUDE DEBUSSY ALBERT CLAUDE ALBERT CLAUDE ALBERT CLAUDE ALBERT CLAUDE ALBERT CLAUDE ALBERT CLAUDE ALBERT CLAUDE ALBERT CLAUDE Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is o... CLAUDE TAYLOR Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed a... CLAUDE MCKAY Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try. CLAUDE MERMET CLAUDE PEPPER CLAUDE PEPPER CLAUDE PEPPER CLAUDE BERNARD Collect impressions. Don CLAUDE DEBUSSY There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And bec... CLAUDE DEBUSSY Music is the space between the notes. CLAUDE DEBUSSY Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes. CLAUDE DEBUSSY CLAUDE PEPPER CLAUDE HOPKINS CLAUDE BERNARD CLAUDE BERNARD CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE PEPPER CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE BROWN CLAUDE MONET There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautifu... CLAUDE DEBUSSY CLAUDE MONET ALBERT CLAUDE ALBERT CLAUDE CLAUDE SHANNON CLAUDE SHANNON CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE VORILHON CLAUDE PEPPER ALBERT CLAUDE A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. CLAUDE DEBUSSY CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There i... CLAUDE DEBUSSY CLAUDE VORILHON CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and politica... CLAUDE MCKAY My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I ... CLAUDE NICOLLIER Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. CLAUDE DEBUSSY CLAUDE PEPPER I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle... CLAUDE DEBUSSY CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. CLAUDE DEBUSSY Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday even... CLAUDE DEBUSSY How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. CLAUDE DEBUSSY Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking
and believing. As individuals... CLAUDE BRISTOL The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an
ideal always before him, causes i... CLAUDE BRISTOL It was the most difficult day for me in my life. CLAUDE ALLEN They are consumed very quickly at the first of the year, and we need to look at increasing that. CLAUDE ALLEN ...Some of reports have called for increases of 10,000; others between 20,000 and 40,000. So there a... CLAUDE ALLEN We are making changes that will increase the opportunity. CLAUDE ALLEN I cannot name any programs that will be cut. In fact, we did not focus on that. CLAUDE ALLEN The administration believes it's in the best interest at this time to ban both research as well as r... CLAUDE ALLEN The safety net is tight and strong. CLAUDE ALLEN Frankly, the president has not been satisfied. None of us have been satisfied. CLAUDE ALLEN CLAUDE BERNARD To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Fi... CLAUDE SIMON CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE BERNARD CLAUDE BERNARD CLAUDE BERNARD When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats. CLAUDE SWANSON CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE BERNARD CLAUDE BERNARD Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each f... CLAUDE MCKAY The first time I went to America in the mid-1960s, I was telling (everyone) I was from Montreux, Swi... CLAUDE NOBS The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew. CLAUDE DEBUSSY There is insufficient capacity there and there is a problem with conversion capacity. CLAUDE MANDIL Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each f... CLAUDE MCKAY ALBERT CLAUDE In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are... CLAUDE NICOLLIER Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke CLAUDE MCDONALD I suggest that a provision expressly state that the commission will not interfere in any way in the ... CLAUDE JORDA CLAUDE BERNARD Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and... CLAUDE MCKAY CLAUDE BERNARD CLAUDE BERNARD The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner. CLAUDE NICOLLIER CLAUDE BERNARD Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993... CLAUDE NICOLLIER The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the... CLAUDE NICOLLIER The score was a bit cruel, but that's football and we congratulate the Egypt team. CLAUDE LEROY Every team that comes to Chelsea , they close the game, CLAUDE MAKELELE Some people may have expected us to drop points at Liverpool or get beaten. We didn't do that, we wo... CLAUDE MAKELELE The question is not whether we play well or play badly. It's to play to win. Nobody will remember th... CLAUDE MAKELELE We have to win that last match, no matter how. CLAUDE MAKELELE On Thursday I'm going to train with all the enthusiasm in the world together with my Madrid teammate... CLAUDE MAKELELE It is more a case of us giving the goals away than a product of our opponents play, ... We need to o... CLAUDE MAKELELE ALBERT CLAUDE The highway administration is looking at it. This will be closely monitored. We're probably going to... CLAUDE BERGERON Seven said 'Yes,' three said 'No' and one was absent and hence two reports reflecting both views wen... CLAUDE ALVARES The fungus is knocking out species...It impedes the ability of their skin to absorb oxygen and just ... CLAUDE GASCON The fungus is knocking out species...It impedes the ability of their skin to absorb oxygen and just ... CLAUDE GASCON We just ask him to play well and if he fits our puzzle, we'll keep him. CLAUDE JULIEN The I-75 corridor gets a lot of traffic. CLAUDE BERGERON Elections themselves are not the magic bullet, CLAUDE CLEGG It's significant. The changes are not minimal. CLAUDE GAUTHIER The U.S. was hit on its own territory, and furthermore, the impact was done by civilian aircraft, wh... JEAN CLAUDE They're playing like an ordinary team, but I remember that was the case two seasons ago, CLAUDE JULIEN CLAUDE BERNARD Most worries are reruns. CLAUDE MCDONALD We take every opportunity we can to get other forces, particularly land forces like the Marines, inv... CLAUDE BOLTON We know that there are survivors since we hear knocking against the sides, against the hull, JEAN CLAUDE You were asked, and very, very rarely did you deny a donation to help pay for things at the school. CLAUDE CRANSTON I hope I don't cry. I keep losing it. It was scary. It tore some of the roof off. I couldn't get gas... CLAUDE FORET If we do not stay on track, we are dead meat. CLAUDE BOLTON CLAUDE SHANNON We must change these outcomes and get the planet onto a sustainable energy path. CLAUDE MANDIL If Lance Armstrong was a French rider and we were in possession of the same information, we would ha... CLAUDE DROUSSENT What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual ... CLAUDE CALAME In many cases, captive colonies will be our only short-term way of avoiding extinction. CLAUDE GASCON The technology is truly efficient and economical. But the biggest thing is, our economic analysis sh... CLAUDE CORKADEL Menopausal women who might have been candidates for estrogen plus progestin should now focus on well... CLAUDE LENFANT It appears participation was the highest in this country's electoral history. CLAUDE BOUCHER If any supply disruption occurs again we can make a speedy decision, CLAUDE MANDIL This agreement allows us to extend the breadth and sophistication of our integrated solutions to our... CLAUDE IMBLEAU CLAUDE MONET The agreement will help Central African countries cooperate across borders in protected areas manage... CLAUDE MARTIN I'm a sweet eater. I love lemon pie and sweet potato pie. CLAUDE WILLIAMS We know of fishing vessels that carry up to twelve different flags on board, and they re-flag their ... CLAUDE MARTIN The situation is critical. We are trying to deliver food and medicine to park staff who are courageo... CLAUDE MARTIN The economic interests of the rich are being put before poor people and the environment. CLAUDE MARTIN Keith Jarrett did the first festival when he was part of the Charles Lloyd quartet, ... Then he came... CLAUDE NOBS Spare capacity has never been as low as it is today in upstream and downstream. A lot of investment ... CLAUDE MANDIL CLAUDE SHANNON CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE MONET CLAUDE PEPPER CLAUDE SHANNON Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,/ And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,/ Stealing my... CLAUDE MCKAY Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is ... CLAUDE DEBUSSY If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything. CLAUDE MCKAY There is inconsistency in the information about the toxic waste. CLAUDE ALVARES the attacks looming on the horizon. JEAN CLAUDE Although research has shown the value of aspirin for people who have had a heart attack or stroke, a... CLAUDE LENFANT The Greeks play very well on the counter, CLAUDE MAKELELE Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insin... CLAUDE DEBUSSY The Commission fails completely in its Green Book to react to the rebirth of 'economic patriotism' i... CLAUDE TURMES The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. CLAUDE DEBUSSY Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one... 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I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what... 
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't k... 
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop... 
When I write, I have a sort of secret kinship of readers in all countries who don't know each ot... 
I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are ve... 
That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences a... 
I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to sa... 
I go back to a very specific aspect of the Midwest - small towns surrounded by farmland. They make a... 
Often unless there is a specific problem they have to a possible STD, they do not bring it up, ... T... 
I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can&#... 
I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity ... 
People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for... 
It's a juicy thing to say we're building a phone, which is why people want to write about it... 
The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't thi... 
I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting. 
When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart t... 
I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn&#... 
It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. A... 
It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me. 
I like to watch people. For example, people at the airport... What is interesting about them is that... 
I'm not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It's fun to pretend, at least o... 
My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And ... 
I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tu... 
I always did what I thought was interesting. I always just did what caught my fantasy. Looking like ... 
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in... 
A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't... 
I have a very positive attitude to anyone who is protecting the environment, but it's inadmissib... 
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story w... 
I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significa... 
When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult fo... 
Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's... 
To write is to reveal oneself.
If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm ... 
For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. ... 
When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-s... 
I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I wr... 
I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes whe... 
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, eve... 
I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's... 
What's gratifying for me and interesting is that people are picking up on exactly what I want th... 
What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for... 
I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about... 
You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think ... 
I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignor... 
I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna plea... 
Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your fac... 
How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the r... 
I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me... 
I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write... 
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it'... 
Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with ... 
It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I fi... 
Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. ... 
It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and ... 
But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to... 
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age,... 
Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their ta... 
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. 
Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling. 
The right name is an advertisement in itself. 
It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. 
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myse... 
For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land? 
For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all ho... 
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the ma... 
My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature. 
Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, do... 
Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life. 
We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. 
I just wondered how things were put together. 
by staring at light bulbs during games. The light contracted his pupils, making his reactions harder... 
Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mank... 