Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.

I read somewhere that happiness is like the bluebird of Maeterlinck: Try to catch it and it loses its color. It's like trying to hold water in your hands. The more you squeeze it, the more the water runs away.

Hollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.

I simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship that begins to exist between his body and the other things in the scene.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.