I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.

I want an actor to try to give me what I ask in the best and most exact way possible. He mustn't try to find out more, because then there's the danger that he'll become his own director.

A film you can explain in words is not a real film.

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

It's untrue to say the colors I use are not those of reality. They are real: The red I use is red; the green, green; blue, blue; and yellow, yellow. It's a matter of arranging them differently from the way I find them, but they are always real colors. So it's not true that when I tint a road or a wall, they become unreal. They stay real, though colored differently for my scene.

The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.

Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.