We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

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.

The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written on the page is right or not. In the script, you describe imagined scenes, but it's all suspended in mid-air. Often, an actor viewed against a wall or a landscape, or seen through a window, is much more eloquent than the lines you've given him. So then you take out the lines. This happens often to me and I end up saying what I want with a movement or a gesture.

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

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.