Quotes from Eric Rohmer

A good film is also a documentary

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

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

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

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

The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.

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