We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.

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

I may film scenes I had no intention of filming; things suggest themselves on location, and we improvise. I try not to think about it too much. Then, in the cutting room, I take the film and start to put it together, and only then do I begin to get an idea of what it is about.

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 can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.

There's much talk about the problems of youth, but young people are not a problem. It's a natural evolution of things. We, who have known only how to make war and slaughter people, have no right to judge them, nor can we teach them anything.

Another reason for switching to color is world television. In a few years, it will all be in color, and you can't compete against that with black-and-white films.