Six Moral Tales

“I have to take the Rohmer Six Moral Tales. Something about how he talks about words, how he has written about words and people talking, and how he's not afraid of doing films with people talking so much and he's showing that words are photogenic in a way.”

“Eric Rohmer. Also a fight I’ve had with Aza Jacobs. When I say fight, I just mean that they talk about it and I sort of ignore those texts. So I’m gonna give it a chance, because I bet you they’re right and I’m wrong. That’s what they call aging. I think I’m about to have tits out, but let’s see what this adventure is about.”

“Okay, so I’ve been hitting these Six Moral Tales by Rohmer. We just watched… What did we watch? Oh no, this is the other one! This is his other themed series of films. But we’ve actually been watching Tales of the Four Seasons... I think I need both of these because we’re actually watching one of his other themed collections.”

“These are Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. This, you can see them all, they are fantastic.”

“Eric Rohmer box. Eric Rohmer. The fantastic thing about Eric Rohmer is he's so subtle. It's hard to kind of pitch him, which is often the quality of good cinema. It's hard to explain. You got to see it. There's something so seemingly subtle and everyday about his movies, yet they are always very precise in their depiction of humans and their strange endeavors.”

“I have to get your Claire's Knee and the Rohmer series. I have to get that. I went to NYU wanting to make the next Die Hard and then this happened and this led me to French New Wave... I feel as Claire's Knee it really set me down the right path.”

“Six Moral Tales, I think this is a very good box, it's very valuable. Rohmer, I think one of the most important filmmakers in the world for me. As if there is nothing happens but everything happens there, that's the kind of movie I like most.”

“One of my favorite things as a set, as a piece, is Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales. I would say Love in the Afternoon is my favorite of the Tales, but they’re all stories about women and men and the different dynamics that… really complicated dynamics that can come from women and men encountering each other in different ways. And again, I love a guy who sets out to make a set of movies that are all of a piece.”

“I would be remiss if I didn't talk about Rohmer because I was kind of named after one of his movies there's a softness to the way he tells stories that you know the French filmmakers of the new wave are just so increment here it's like I could be holding them up together...”

“Six Moral Tales, Eric Rohmer. It feels like a perfect way to start because I love just seeing characters sitting around talking about love. Very little action, just conversations on camera that felt organic and genuine and unscripted, so big inspiration.”