A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

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

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

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.

Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.