Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

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

A film you can explain in words is not a real film.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

It's untrue to say the colors I use are not those of reality. They are real: The red I use is red; the green, green; blue, blue; and yellow, yellow. It's a matter of arranging them differently from the way I find them, but they are always real colors. So it's not true that when I tint a road or a wall, they become unreal. They stay real, though colored differently for my scene.