- Francois Truffaut in a 1973 interview: "Rohmer is the best French director now. He became famous very late compared to the rest of us, but for 15 years he's been behind us all the time. He's influenced us from behind for a long time.".
- His ten favorite films are True Heart Susie (1919), The General (1926), Sunrise (1927), La Règle du jeu (1939), Ivan the Terrible (1944), Journey to Italy (1954), Red River (1948), Vertigo (1958), Pickpocket (1959) and La Pyramide humaine (1961).
- A former professor of literature.
- His stage name was fashioned together in homage to actor and director Erich von Stroheim and 19th-century English novelist Sax Rohmer.
- Regarded film as "the last refuge of poetry" and the only contemporary art form from which metaphor can still spring naturally and spontaneously.
- Brother of philosopher and actor René Schérer.
- Beginning in the late 1970s during the production of Perceval le Gallois, Rohmer began to reduce the number of crew members on his films. He first dispensed of the script supervisor, then cut out the assistant director, then all other assistants and technical managers until, by the time he shot The Green Ray in 1986, his crew consisted only of a camera operator and a sound engineer.
- When he was a critic for Cahiers du Cinéma, unlike the more aggressive and personal writings of younger critics like Truffaut and Godard, Rohmer favored a rhetorical style that made extensive use of questions and rarely used the first person singular.
- First published articles under his real name but began using "Éric Rohmer" in 1955 so that his family would not find out that he was involved in the film world, as they would have disapproved.
- For many years he was known to jog two miles to his office every morning.
- His mother died without ever knowing that her son Maurice was in fact a famous film director named Éric Rohmer.
- For years he had no telephone and refused to even get into cars, which he called "immoral polluters.".
- Was secretive about his private life and often gave different dates of birth to reporters.
- Saw extradiegetic music as a violation of the fourth wall.
- His favorite film director was Jean Renoir.
- Championed Nicholas Ray, Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks.
- Considered filmmaking to be "closer to the novel - to a certain classical style of novel which the cinema is now taking over - than the other forms of entertainment, like the theater.
- His grave is located in district 13 of Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.
- Was well known for his need for personal privacy and sometimes wore disguises, such as wearing a false mustache at the New York premiere of one of his films.
- His best-known article was "Le Celluloid et le marbre" ("Celluloid and Marble", 1955), which examines the relationship between film and other arts.
- His obituary in The Daily Telegraph described him as "the most durable film-maker of the French New Wave".
- Interviewed in "World Directors in Dialogue" by Bert Cardullo (Scarecrow Press, 2011).
- Received an advanced degree in history. He also studied literature, philosophy, and theology as a student.
- Wrote film reviews for such publications as Révue du Cinéma, Arts, Temps Modernes and La Parisienne.
- Wrote the earliest book-length study of Alfred Hitchcock, with Claude Chabrol.
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