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

- Eric Rohmer

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

- Eric Rohmer

A good film is also a documentary

- Eric Rohmer

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

- Eric Rohmer

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 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, b…

- Eric Rohmer

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

- Eric Rohmer

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

- Eric Rohmer