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

I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.

Women are a finer filter of reality. They can sniff things.

Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and yet another to Freud; so it is not possible to give a single definition, one that will exhaust the subject. It is a question bordering on philosophy, and I'm not a philosopher nor a sociologist. My business is to tell stories, to narrate with images - nothing else. If I do make films about alienation - to use that word that is so ambiguous - they are about characters, not about me.

I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society .... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.