Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in the future. We know only that it is something dynamic - unlike many ideas that have governed us.

I simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship that begins to exist between his body and the other things in the scene.

It isn't easy to understand the lives of people different from your own.

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

I don't know whether I am ever bored. I never look at myself.

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

Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.