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

Hollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

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.

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

A woman's sex appeal is an inner matter. It stems from her mental make-up, basically. It's an attitude, not just a question of her physical features - that arrogant quality in a woman's femininity. Otherwise, all beautiful women would have sex appeal, which is not so.