Roger Vadim - biography

“You wouldn’t ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.”

“The most important quality [in a woman] is that she doesn’t know she’s beautiful, or if she does, she doesn’t believe it.  There’s nothing more unattractive - for me - and les sexual than a woman who knows she’s a beauty, who knows men are looking at her.”

“The only thing I love in love is all the feelings, the imaginations, the orgasms of the woman.  For this reason, I’m not a good libertine.”

“Great lovers are such a bore.  And stupid people most of the time.  Limited in the mind.  I’m not a great lover.”

“I shudder at the image they would piece together.”

“I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.”

“We’re playing strip billiards.”

Roger Vadim directed the following films:
Et Dieu... créa la femme (1956)
Sait-on jamais... (1957)
Les Bijoutiers du clair de lune (1958)
Les Liaisons dangereuses (1959)
Et mourir de plaisir (1960)
La Bride sur le cou (1961)
Les Sept péchés capitaux (1962)
Le Repos du guerrier (1962)
Le Vice et la vertu (1963)
Château en Suède (1963)
La Ronde (1964)
La Curée (1966)
Histoires extraordinaires (1968)
Barbarella (1968)
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
Hellé (1972)
Don Juan ou Si Don Juan était une femme... (1973)
La Jeune fille assassinée (1974)
Une femme fidèle (1976)
Night Games (1980)
The Hot Touch (1982)
Surprise Party (1983)
And God Created Woman (1988)


Roger Vadim contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Maria Chapdelaine (1950)
Blackmailed (1951)
L’Amante di Paride (1954)
Futures vedettes (1955)
Cette sacrée gamine (1956)
En effeuillant la marguerite (1956)
Et Dieu... créa la femme (1956)
Sait-on jamais... (1957)
Les Bijoutiers du clair de lune (1958)
Sois belle et tais-toi (1958)
Les Liaisons dangereuses (1959)
Et mourir de plaisir (1960)
La Bride sur le cou (1961)
Et Satan conduit le bal (1962)
Le Repos du guerrier (1962)
Les Parisiennes (1962)
Château en Suède (1963)
Le Vice et la vertu (1963)
La Curée (1966)
Barbarella (1968)
Histoires extraordinaires (1968)
Hellé (1972)
Don Juan ou Si Don Juan était une femme... (1973)
La Jeune fille assassinée (1974)
Une femme fidèle (1976)
Surprise Party (1983)