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

A woman's sex appeal is an inner matter. It stems from her mental make-up, basically. It's an attitude, not just a question of her physical features - that arrogant quality in a woman's femininity. Otherwise, all beautiful women would have sex appeal, which is not so.

When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and find one who resembles him.

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

I've always played down the drama in my films. In my main scenes, there's never an opportunity for an actor to let go of everything he's got inside. I always try to tone down the acting, because my stories demand it, to the point where I might change a script so that an actor has no opportunity to come out well.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.