I may film scenes I had no intention of filming; things suggest themselves on location, and we improvise. I try not to think about it too much. Then, in the cutting room, I take the film and start to put it together, and only then do I begin to get an idea of what it is about.

Another reason for switching to color is world television. In a few years, it will all be in color, and you can't compete against that with black-and-white films.

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

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

Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.

I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.

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