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

Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.

You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.

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

There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience.

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

It's obvious that I must explain what I want from an actor, but I don't want to discuss everything I ask him to do, because often my requests are completely instinctive and there are things I can't explain. It's like painting: You don't know why you use pink instead of blue. You simply feel that's how it should be - pink. Then the phone rings and you answer it. When you come back, you don't want pink anymore and you use blue - without knowing why. You can't help it; that's just the way it is.