There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.

As a private person, professionally I am invisible.

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.

Because in the feudal system of that period at least 80% of people lived in villages, so it's very simple to get a cross-section of society in a single village. You get the microcosm of the social macrocosm.