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.

The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb, the world war we've made, the new philosophies we've created; certainly something is happening to man, so why go against it, why oblige this new man to live by the mechanisms and regulations of the past?

Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.

The women I like, no matter what nationality, all seem to have more or less the same qualities. Perhaps this is because one goes looking for them - that is, you like that type of woman and then look for her.

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government.

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