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

Films with a message just make me laugh.

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

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.

I am not a dwarf.