A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

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?

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

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

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.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.