I've always dreamed of getting to know the women of other countries better. When I was a boy, I remember, I used to get angry at the thought that I did not know German or American or Swedish women.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

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

A woman's sex appeal is an inner matter. It stems from her mental make-up, basically. It's an attitude, not just a question of her physical features - that arrogant quality in a woman's femininity. Otherwise, all beautiful women would have sex appeal, which is not so.

The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb, the world war we've made, the new philosophies we've created; certainly something is happening to man, so why go against it, why oblige this new man to live by the mechanisms and regulations of the past?

I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head at the moment of shooting.