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

I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.

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.

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.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

I dislike judging myself, but I will say I would be wealthy today if I had accepted all the films that have been offered to me with large sums of money. But I've always refused, in order to do what I felt like doing.

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