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.

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

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in the future. We know only that it is something dynamic - unlike many ideas that have governed us.

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

After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.