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

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

Ingmar Bergman is a long way from me, but I admire him. He, too, concentrates a great deal on individuals; and although the individual is what interests him most, we are very far apart. His individuals are very different from mine; his problems are different from mine - but he's a great director. So is Fellini, for that matter.

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.

After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.

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