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.

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

I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.

I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society .... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.