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

It isn't easy to understand the lives of people different from your own.

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

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

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.

I've always dreamed of getting to know the women of other countries better. When I was a boy, I remember, I used to get angry at the thought that I did not know German or American or Swedish women.