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.

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.

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

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

Another reason for switching to color is world television. In a few years, it will all be in color, and you can't compete against that with black-and-white films.

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

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.