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

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

I didn't like university life much at Bologna. The subjects I studied - economics and business administration - didn't interest me. I wanted to make films. I was glad when I was graduated. Yet it's odd; on graduation day, I was overcome with a terrible sadness. I realized that my youth was over and now the struggle had begun.

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

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

My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.

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