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"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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"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."

"Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen."

"As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing."

"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."

"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."

"First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law."
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