This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.

There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.

All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun

I've always said that to make movies, to make images and sound, is possible by one way or another. And it has not to be ruled by the Pharaohs of Egypt, the Pharaohs from Hollywood or wherever. I have tried very hard to make even a small budget picture here. It always fails. Over a dozen times. And now I know why. It was only because I wanted to be in control of the money. To spend it the way I wanted.

There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.