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.

Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.

One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government.

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

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