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"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."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing."
"First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law."
"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 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."
"Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen."
"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."
"It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people."
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