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.

We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.

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

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.

My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

Hollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.