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 am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

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

When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and find one who resembles him.

It isn't easy to understand the lives of people different from your own.

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a director, have to see the film as a whole. He must therefore collaborate selflessly, totally.