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

Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.

In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

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.

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.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written on the page is right or not. In the script, you describe imagined scenes, but it's all suspended in mid-air. Often, an actor viewed against a wall or a landscape, or seen through a window, is much more eloquent than the lines you've given him. So then you take out the lines. This happens often to me and I end up saying what I want with a movement or a gesture.