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

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.

The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.

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

I've always dreamed of getting to know the women of other countries better. When I was a boy, I remember, I used to get angry at the thought that I did not know German or American or Swedish women.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

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?