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

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

When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and find one who resembles him.

I may film scenes I had no intention of filming; things suggest themselves on location, and we improvise. I try not to think about it too much. Then, in the cutting room, I take the film and start to put it together, and only then do I begin to get an idea of what it is about.

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.

I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why.