When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and find one who resembles him.

I've always played down the drama in my films. In my main scenes, there's never an opportunity for an actor to let go of everything he's got inside. I always try to tone down the acting, because my stories demand it, to the point where I might change a script so that an actor has no opportunity to come out well.

It isn't easy to understand the lives of people different from your own.

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

There are many ways of communicating. Some hold the theory that new forms of communication between people can be obtained through hallucinogenic drugs.

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.

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