A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain.

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

Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.

I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.

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

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.