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

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

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

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.