Violence is not the only means of persuasion.

I'm not rich and maybe I'll never be rich. Money is useful - yes - but I don't worship it.

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.

A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time, which was as exceptional as the reality around us. Our major interest focused on that and on how we could relate to it. Later, when the situation normalized and post-war life returned to what it had been in peacetime, it became important to see the intimate, interior consequences of all that had happened.

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.