If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying.

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

We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

(When asked what a director does) I help.

I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the great documentary filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Joris Ivens. Today, television has put an end to this type of filmmaking.

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 really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.