I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

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.

People are always misquoting me.

The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb, the world war we've made, the new philosophies we've created; certainly something is happening to man, so why go against it, why oblige this new man to live by the mechanisms and regulations of the past?

You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

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.