I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

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 never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.

Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.