Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.

Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.

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

When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and find one who resembles him.

Neorealism taught us to follow the characters with the camera, allowing each shot its own real interior time. Well, I became tired of all this; I could no longer stand real time. In order to function, a shot must show only what is useful.

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

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.