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.

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

There's much talk about the problems of youth, but young people are not a problem. It's a natural evolution of things. We, who have known only how to make war and slaughter people, have no right to judge them, nor can we teach them anything.

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.

My films have always had an element of immediate autobiography, in that I shoot any particular scene according to the mood I'm in that day, according to the little daily experiences I've had and am having - but I don't tell what has happened to me. I would like to do something more strictly autobiographical, but perhaps I never will, because it isn't interesting enough.

I've always dreamed of getting to know the women of other countries better. When I was a boy, I remember, I used to get angry at the thought that I did not know German or American or Swedish women.