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

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

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

The women I like, no matter what nationality, all seem to have more or less the same qualities. Perhaps this is because one goes looking for them - that is, you like that type of woman and then look for her.

A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time, which was as exceptional as the reality around us. Our major interest focused on that and on how we could relate to it. Later, when the situation normalized and post-war life returned to what it had been in peacetime, it became important to see the intimate, interior consequences of all that had happened.

Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.

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