Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head at the moment of shooting.

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.

I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.

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