It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a director, have to see the film as a whole. He must therefore collaborate selflessly, totally.

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

Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.

I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.

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.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.