Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

Neorealism taught us to follow the characters with the camera, allowing each shot its own real interior time. Well, I became tired of all this; I could no longer stand real time. In order to function, a shot must show only what is useful.

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

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

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.

Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.