It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.

I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.

A woman is subject matter enough.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

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

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