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.

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.

I've always played down the drama in my films. In my main scenes, there's never an opportunity for an actor to let go of everything he's got inside. I always try to tone down the acting, because my stories demand it, to the point where I might change a script so that an actor has no opportunity to come out well.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

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

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

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.