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.

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

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.

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

Favourite directors change, like favorite authors. I had a passion for Gide and Stein and Faulkner. But now they're no use to me anymore. I've assimilated them - so, enough, they are a closed chapter. This also applies to film directors.

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

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.