Before each new setup, I chase everyone off the set in order to be alone and look through the camera. In that moment, the film seems quite easy. But then the others come in and everything becomes difficult.

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

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

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

I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

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