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

One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government.

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.

Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.

I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why.

It's obvious that I must explain what I want from an actor, but I don't want to discuss everything I ask him to do, because often my requests are completely instinctive and there are things I can't explain. It's like painting: You don't know why you use pink instead of blue. You simply feel that's how it should be - pink. Then the phone rings and you answer it. When you come back, you don't want pink anymore and you use blue - without knowing why. You can't help it; that's just the way it is.

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.