Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.

I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.

My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.

I would throw out the sense of nation, "good breeding," certain forms and ceremonies that govern relationships - perhaps even jealousy. We're not aware of all of them yet, though we suffer from them. And they mislead us not only about ethics but also about aesthetics.

I read somewhere that happiness is like the bluebird of Maeterlinck: Try to catch it and it loses its color. It's like trying to hold water in your hands. The more you squeeze it, the more the water runs away.

I want an actor to try to give me what I ask in the best and most exact way possible. He mustn't try to find out more, because then there's the danger that he'll become his own director.

People are always misquoting me.