The best Quotes by Claude Chabrol

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.

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

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.

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

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

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."

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Paris means walking.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.