The way I relax, what I like doing most, is watching. That's why I like traveling, to have new things before my eyes - even a new face. I enjoy myself like that and can stay for hours, looking at things, people, scenery.

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel for some time that I couldn't stand certain films, certain modes, certain ways of telling a story, certain tricks of plot development, all of it predictable and useless.

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

In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

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

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.