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.

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

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

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

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

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

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.