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

I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.

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.

Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel for some time that I couldn't stand certain films, certain modes, certain ways of telling a story, certain tricks of plot development, all of it predictable and useless.

Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.

We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.

You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.