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

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.

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

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.

Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.

In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.