Eric Rohmer Quotes

France, Film Director
March 21, 1920 – January, 11, 2010.

Jean Marie Maurice Schérer or Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer ( 21 March 1920 – 11 January 2010), was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and teacher.

Also known as Journalist, Teacher

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
- Words
- Speak
- Images
A good film is also a documentary.

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

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

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

Eric Rohmer
- Art
- I Think