Eric Rohmer Quotes

'Deer Hunter' is a movie; it is not an attempt to write history.

You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

With the dramatic canvas, I found you could still operate with the documentarist's observational eye.

I love film criticism as an art. I think it's a very important thing.

When you're drawing from observation and experience, whether you intend to or not, you'll create a more relatable cartoon.

Earlier films were meant only for entertainment, but now filmmakers, who are products of these times, do not compromise on real stuff. That is why storytelling has become more convincing.

The whole point of making a film is to tell a story.

I've always loved [Elsa Dorfman] work. I've loved her and her work is so much an expression of her. One of the reasons to make the film is to expose Elsa, hopefully, to a wider audience.

If you're trying to be realistic and bring real life to the screen, you are going to have different elements. That's what I'm trying to do. As I make the movie, different elements come in naturally.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative. Everything feels less rehearsed. It’s more experimental than classical.

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so.

A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That's a wonderful thing that grows and happens in films.

I always find film-making a pleasurable experience.

I think I'll try to keep working in film for a little bit. There's something still kind of magical about it, that I don't want to let go of.

It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.

When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.

The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.

I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.