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.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

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

I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.

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

The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development- whether psychological or material- one must pass on to the actual realization.

I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.