Eric Rohmer Quotes
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Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.
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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.
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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.
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The French are very individualistic.
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You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.
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I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.
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The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
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I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.