There are many ways of communicating. Some hold the theory that new forms of communication between people can be obtained through hallucinogenic drugs.

It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a director, have to see the film as a whole. He must therefore collaborate selflessly, totally.

I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and yet another to Freud; so it is not possible to give a single definition, one that will exhaust the subject. It is a question bordering on philosophy, and I'm not a philosopher nor a sociologist. My business is to tell stories, to narrate with images - nothing else. If I do make films about alienation - to use that word that is so ambiguous - they are about characters, not about me.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

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

I dislike judging myself, but I will say I would be wealthy today if I had accepted all the films that have been offered to me with large sums of money. But I've always refused, in order to do what I felt like doing.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.