I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

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

Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in the future. We know only that it is something dynamic - unlike many ideas that have governed us.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

I simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship that begins to exist between his body and the other things in the scene.