Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

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

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

You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.

I've always played down the drama in my films. In my main scenes, there's never an opportunity for an actor to let go of everything he's got inside. I always try to tone down the acting, because my stories demand it, to the point where I might change a script so that an actor has no opportunity to come out well.

I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society .... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.