All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel for some time that I couldn't stand certain films, certain modes, certain ways of telling a story, certain tricks of plot development, all of it predictable and useless.

I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why.

Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.

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

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.

Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in the future. We know only that it is something dynamic - unlike many ideas that have governed us.