Eric Rohmer
Eric Rohmer
Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer or Jean Marie Maurice Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer, was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth20 March 1920
CountryFrance
Eric Rohmer quotes about
thinking painful monopolizing
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
individualistic
The French are very individualistic.
civilization shapes film
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.
alliances difficulty
The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
faithful subsidies states
I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.
documentaries film good-films
A good film is also a documentary
thinking
You can't think of nothing.
trends know-how knows
You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.
art thinking repose
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.
moving people speak
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.
thinking ordinary ordinary-things
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.