Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel for some time that I couldn't stand certain films, certain modes, certain ways of telling a story, certain tricks of plot development, all of it predictable and useless.

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

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.

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

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

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