Violence is not the only means of persuasion.

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

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

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.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

There's much talk about the problems of youth, but young people are not a problem. It's a natural evolution of things. We, who have known only how to make war and slaughter people, have no right to judge them, nor can we teach them anything.