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

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.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

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

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.

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.

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.