I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.

That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.