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

I read somewhere that happiness is like the bluebird of Maeterlinck: Try to catch it and it loses its color. It's like trying to hold water in your hands. The more you squeeze it, the more the water runs away.

People are always misquoting me.

I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain.

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

I dislike judging myself, but I will say I would be wealthy today if I had accepted all the films that have been offered to me with large sums of money. But I've always refused, in order to do what I felt like doing.

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.