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

One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government.

I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

There's much talk about the problems of youth, but young people are not a problem. It's a natural evolution of things. We, who have known only how to make war and slaughter people, have no right to judge them, nor can we teach them anything.

I may film scenes I had no intention of filming; things suggest themselves on location, and we improvise. I try not to think about it too much. Then, in the cutting room, I take the film and start to put it together, and only then do I begin to get an idea of what it is about.

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