On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon. Jeanne is the vowel and Sophie the consonant. Psychologists know this phenomenon well. Each individual is harmless, but together they create an explosive chemical reaction. It's like Bonnie and Clyde, like Thelma and Louise.

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

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.

There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.

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

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

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.