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

I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.

Favourite directors change, like favorite authors. I had a passion for Gide and Stein and Faulkner. But now they're no use to me anymore. I've assimilated them - so, enough, they are a closed chapter. This also applies to film directors.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.