If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

I dislike judging myself, but I will say I would be wealthy today if I had accepted all the films that have been offered to me with large sums of money. But I've always refused, in order to do what I felt like doing.

I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.

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.

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.

I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain.

I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.