Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right.

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?