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.

I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head at the moment of shooting.

Violence is not the only means of persuasion.

The women I like, no matter what nationality, all seem to have more or less the same qualities. Perhaps this is because one goes looking for them - that is, you like that type of woman and then look for her.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

When I see nature, when I look into the sky, the dawn, the sun, the colors of insects, snow crystals, the night stars, I don't feel a need for God. Perhaps when I can no longer look and wonder, when I believe in nothing - then, perhaps, I might need something else. But I don't know what.

You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.