Eric Rohmer quotes
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“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 RohmerSource : Éric Rohmer (1980). “Six moral tales”, Viking Books
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“The French are very individualistic.”
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“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 RohmerSource : Eric Rohmer, Jean Narboni (1989). “Goput de la BeautGe. English”, p.80, Cambridge University Press
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“You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.”
-- Eric RohmerSource : "The French revolutionary". Interview with Tobias Grey, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.
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“I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.”
-- Eric RohmerSource : "The French revolutionary". Interview with Tobias Grey, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.
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“I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.”
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“I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.”
-- Eric RohmerSource : "The French revolutionary". Interview with Tobias Grey, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.
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“The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.”
-- Eric RohmerSource : "FILM; Eric Rohmer Writes His Own 'Winter's Tale'" by John Rockwell, www.nytimes.com. March 27, 1994.
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“Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.”
-- Eric RohmerSource : "FILM; Eric Rohmer Writes His Own 'Winter's Tale'" by John Rockwell, www.nytimes.com. March 27, 1994.
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