If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.