The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.

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

Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.

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

I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain.

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.

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.