Films with a message just make me laugh.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

I like to have the screen full of color, twenty colors on the screen at once, fifty colors. There are no dominants despite what people have said.

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.