Eric Rohmer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing
-- Eric Rohmer

#Thinking #Painful #Monopolizing
The French are very individualistic.
-- Eric Rohmer
I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.â€¦ I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.
-- Eric Rohmer

#Moving #People #Speak
You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.
-- Eric Rohmer

#Trends
I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.
-- Eric Rohmer

#Faithful #Subsidies #States
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
-- Eric Rohmer

#Thinking #Ordinary #Ordinary Things
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.
-- Eric Rohmer

#Art #Thinking
The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
-- Eric Rohmer

#Alliances #Difficulty
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.
-- Eric Rohmer

#Civilization #Shapes #Film
You can't think of nothing.
-- Eric Rohmer

#Thinking
A good film is also a documentary
-- Eric Rohmer

#Documentaries #Film #Good Films

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