I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head at the moment of shooting.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.

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?

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

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

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