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

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 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.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

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

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!