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Eric Rohmer Quotes

I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… 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.

I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… 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
Eric Rohmer, Jean Narboni (1989). “Goput de la BeautGe. English”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

Eric Rohmer
Trends, Know How, Knows
"The French revolutionary". Interview with Tobias Grey, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

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

A good film is also a documentary

Eric Rohmer
Documentaries, Film, Good Films

You can't think of nothing.

Eric Rohmer
Thinking

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

Eric Rohmer
Art, Thinking, High Art
"The French revolutionary". Interview with Tobias Grey, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

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
Éric Rohmer (1980). “Six moral tales”, Viking Books

I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.

Eric Rohmer
Faithful, Subsidies, States
"The French revolutionary". Interview with Tobias Grey, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

Eric Rohmer
Civilization, Shapes, Film
"FILM; Eric Rohmer Writes His Own 'Winter's Tale'" by John Rockwell, www.nytimes.com. March 27, 1994.

The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.

Eric Rohmer
Alliances, Difficulty
"FILM; Eric Rohmer Writes His Own 'Winter's Tale'" by John Rockwell, www.nytimes.com. March 27, 1994.

The French are very individualistic.

Eric Rohmer
Individualistic

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