Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in the future. We know only that it is something dynamic - unlike many ideas that have governed us.

There are many ways of communicating. Some hold the theory that new forms of communication between people can be obtained through hallucinogenic drugs.

I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.

The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.

We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.