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

After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

You cannot penetrate events with reportage.

The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development- whether psychological or material- one must pass on to the actual realization.

Women are a finer filter of reality. They can sniff things.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

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.