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

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

The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb, the world war we've made, the new philosophies we've created; certainly something is happening to man, so why go against it, why oblige this new man to live by the mechanisms and regulations of the past?

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

My films have always had an element of immediate autobiography, in that I shoot any particular scene according to the mood I'm in that day, according to the little daily experiences I've had and am having - but I don't tell what has happened to me. I would like to do something more strictly autobiographical, but perhaps I never will, because it isn't interesting enough.

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

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.