I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.

Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.

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.

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.