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Eric Rohmer Quotes

French director, Birth: 21-3-1920, Death: 11-1-2010
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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 Rohmer

2.
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

3.
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
Eric Rohmer

4.
You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.
Eric Rohmer

5.
I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.
Eric Rohmer

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6.
You can't think of nothing.
Eric Rohmer

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

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

Quote Topics by Eric Rohmer: Thinking Film High Art Good Films Ordinary Alliances Know How Civilization Knows Faithful Moving States Painful Art Documentaries Ordinary Things Individualistic Difficulty Trends Shapes Speak Subsidies People Monopolizing
9.
The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
Eric Rohmer

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The French are very individualistic.
Eric Rohmer

11.
A good film is also a documentary
Eric Rohmer