The best Quotes by Claude Chabrol

The best Quotes by Claude Chabrol

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (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.

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.

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.

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

There is no new wave, only the sea.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

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So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

Madeline Wheeler in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 3

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I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

Harry Houdini

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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Baz Luhrmann

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Quagmire: "You got to help me. I'm looking for a little boy with red overalls and a yellow shirt."
French Man: "You are looking to buy or to rent?"
Quagmire: "What? No! God! How is Paris considered a classy city?"
French Man: "The buildings are beautiful, the people are trash."

Glenn Quagmire in Family Guy

Do you realize this city is laid out in circles? Like they deliberately designed it to confuse us.

Emily Cooper in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 2

Paris seems like a big city, but it's really just a small town.

Camille in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 4

Of course, I love Paris. And the food is so delicious. The fashion, so chic. The lights, so magical. But the people, so mean.

Mindy Chen in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 1

It's Paris. Everyone's serious about dinner.

Mindy Chen in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 2

You haven't done Paris right until you've had at least one wildly inappropriate affair.

Mindy Chen in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 4

What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.

The Parisian has his amus*ments as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

William Cullen Bryant

I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

Paris London Tokyo

When God feels bored, he opens a window and observes the boulevards of Paris.

Heinrich Heine

One of Paris' amenities is that you can be born here, live here, die here without anyone even noticing.

Honoré de Balzac - Le Père Goriot, 1834-1835

Paris means walking.

Victor Hugo

Paris is the only city in the world where starving oneself is still considered art.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

Christoph Waltz

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I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

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When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

Darren Aronofsky

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

Carole King

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

Federico Fellini

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Pedro Almodovar

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

Pedro Almodovar

Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?

Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

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I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Albert Einstein

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Foolishness Technology Generations

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

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Foolishness Intelligence Self-Confidence Doubt

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

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Genius Foolishness

That's the misery: Stupid people are so confident, the wise ones full of doubt.

Helmut Schmidt

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Foolishness Intelligence Doubt

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

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Universe Humanity Foolishness

Brom: "Because you can't argue with all of the fools in the world."

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Eragon

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Foolishness Argument

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

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