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

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

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

A woman's sex appeal is an inner matter. It stems from her mental make-up, basically. It's an attitude, not just a question of her physical features - that arrogant quality in a woman's femininity. Otherwise, all beautiful women would have sex appeal, which is not so.

I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply.