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

People are always misquoting me.

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience.

I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let my thoughts wander freely.