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

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

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.

A film you can explain in words is not a real film.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.