You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.
I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.
A woman is subject matter enough.
I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.
I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
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.