I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

You live day by day. You can't build your life.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.