I'm not rich and maybe I'll never be rich. Money is useful - yes - but I don't worship it.

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

I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and yet another to Freud; so it is not possible to give a single definition, one that will exhaust the subject. It is a question bordering on philosophy, and I'm not a philosopher nor a sociologist. My business is to tell stories, to narrate with images - nothing else. If I do make films about alienation - to use that word that is so ambiguous - they are about characters, not about me.

I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.

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

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

There are many ways of communicating. Some hold the theory that new forms of communication between people can be obtained through hallucinogenic drugs.