I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.

A film you can explain in words is not a real film.

When I'm sure I have a story, I call my collaborators and we begin to discuss it. And we conduct studies of certain subjects to make sure of our terrain. Then, finally, in the last month or two, I write the story.

I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.

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

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.

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