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

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

A woman is subject matter enough.

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.

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.

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

We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.