Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

Ingmar Bergman is a long way from me, but I admire him. He, too, concentrates a great deal on individuals; and although the individual is what interests him most, we are very far apart. His individuals are very different from mine; his problems are different from mine - but he's a great director. So is Fellini, for that matter.

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

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development- whether psychological or material- one must pass on to the actual realization.