You cannot penetrate events with reportage.

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.

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

I simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship that begins to exist between his body and the other things in the scene.

My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.

I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.