Favourite directors change, like favorite authors. I had a passion for Gide and Stein and Faulkner. But now they're no use to me anymore. I've assimilated them - so, enough, they are a closed chapter. This also applies to film directors.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

Before each new setup, I chase everyone off the set in order to be alone and look through the camera. In that moment, the film seems quite easy. But then the others come in and everything becomes difficult.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

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

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