Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.

In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel for some time that I couldn't stand certain films, certain modes, certain ways of telling a story, certain tricks of plot development, all of it predictable and useless.

It isn't easy to understand the lives of people different from your own.

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked most are those I think least about.