My films have always had an element of immediate autobiography, in that I shoot any particular scene according to the mood I'm in that day, according to the little daily experiences I've had and am having - but I don't tell what has happened to me. I would like to do something more strictly autobiographical, but perhaps I never will, because it isn't interesting enough.

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.

Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.

There's much talk about the problems of youth, but young people are not a problem. It's a natural evolution of things. We, who have known only how to make war and slaughter people, have no right to judge them, nor can we teach them anything.

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