There is no new wave, only the sea.

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.