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

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

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

I want an actor to try to give me what I ask in the best and most exact way possible. He mustn't try to find out more, because then there's the danger that he'll become his own director.

Neorealism taught us to follow the characters with the camera, allowing each shot its own real interior time. Well, I became tired of all this; I could no longer stand real time. In order to function, a shot must show only what is useful.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

I don't know whether I am ever bored. I never look at myself.