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.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

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 forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.

You cannot penetrate events with reportage.

Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.