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

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

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.

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

Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th century, when industrialization was just beginning: gray, brown and smoky. Color didn't exist. Today, instead, most everything is colored. The pipe running from the basement to the 12th floor is green because it carries steam. The one carrying electricity is red, and that with water is purple. Also, plastic colors have filled our homes, even revolutionized our taste. Pop art grew out of that and was possible because of this change in taste.

After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

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