Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.

When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked most are those I think least about.

I dislike judging myself, but I will say I would be wealthy today if I had accepted all the films that have been offered to me with large sums of money. But I've always refused, in order to do what I felt like doing.

The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development- whether psychological or material- one must pass on to the actual realization.

Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.

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

Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.