You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

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

Films with a message just make me laugh.

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

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.