Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

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

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

I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

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

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.