A woman's sex appeal is an inner matter. It stems from her mental make-up, basically. It's an attitude, not just a question of her physical features - that arrogant quality in a woman's femininity. Otherwise, all beautiful women would have sex appeal, which is not so.

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

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

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.

The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb, the world war we've made, the new philosophies we've created; certainly something is happening to man, so why go against it, why oblige this new man to live by the mechanisms and regulations of the past?

Women are a finer filter of reality. They can sniff things.

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