Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.

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.

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

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.

I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.