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.

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 always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

I've always dreamed of getting to know the women of other countries better. When I was a boy, I remember, I used to get angry at the thought that I did not know German or American or Swedish women.

In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

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

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