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

When I see nature, when I look into the sky, the dawn, the sun, the colors of insects, snow crystals, the night stars, I don't feel a need for God. Perhaps when I can no longer look and wonder, when I believe in nothing - then, perhaps, I might need something else. But I don't know what.

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

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've always played down the drama in my films. In my main scenes, there's never an opportunity for an actor to let go of everything he's got inside. I always try to tone down the acting, because my stories demand it, to the point where I might change a script so that an actor has no opportunity to come out well.

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.