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

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

I don't know whether I am ever bored. I never look at myself.

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.

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.

I've always played down the drama in my films. In my main scenes, there's never an opportunity for an actor to let go of everything he's got inside. I always try to tone down the acting, because my stories demand it, to the point where I might change a script so that an actor has no opportunity to come out well.

Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.