Liberation didn't solve anything. It just opened up the doors to greed. Some people mix up sex now as if they were eating or drinking like crazy.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.