I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let my thoughts wander freely.

Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.

Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.

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.

A film you can explain in words is not a real film.

You cannot penetrate events with reportage.

Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.