The Moral Tales were written as fiction first and then reworked in to films. I believe the rest of his screenplays were written via a more conventional process.
Rohmer:
“If talking film is an art, speech must play a role in conformity with its character as a sign and not appear only as a sound element, which, though privileged as compared with others, is but of secondary importance as compared with the visual element.”
The dialogue truly is the driving force in his films and so far from what I have seen…it’s brilliant. I’d say that his film that I enjoyed the most was Love In The Afternoon…amazing film! Claire’s Knee was truly unforgettable too. Very well written.
Mathew (sic)
I haven’t seen his films yet, I’m very interested, but I hear he wrote at least a few novels solely in order to adapt them. Did he always? Did he do it because a “talking cinema” would naturally be an interior cinema, and what’s more interior than literature? And I haven’t been able to read that article yet, so I’m curious as to how and why he had the guts to intentionally create ‘talky’ cinema, especially in recent years. Incredible when a filmmaker determines their own path beforehand and manages to stay on it.