In memory of Eric Rohmer (1920-2010)

I think my films introduced into the world of cinema a certain content expressed either by a character monologue as in the voice-over commentary, or by a discussion. In many films, people never discuss ideas, whether moral ideas or political ideas. And if those kinds of discussions are in fact introduced, they always ring false. But I think I've managed - and this is what I'm happiest about with my films as a whole - I've managed to show people discussing morality, whatever that morality might be, in a completely natural way, whether it's a dandy's moral code in La collectionneuse, or religious questions in My Night at Maud's or issues of eroticism in Claire's Knee. They're all covered by the word "moral" in the general sense.

Eric Rohmer

from a discussion with Barbet Schroeder for Criterion