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

I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society .... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.

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

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