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.

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

Before each new setup, I chase everyone off the set in order to be alone and look through the camera. In that moment, the film seems quite easy. But then the others come in and everything becomes difficult.

The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.

A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply.

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

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