The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development- whether psychological or material- one must pass on to the actual realization.

Ingmar Bergman is a long way from me, but I admire him. He, too, concentrates a great deal on individuals; and although the individual is what interests him most, we are very far apart. His individuals are very different from mine; his problems are different from mine - but he's a great director. So is Fellini, for that matter.

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

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.

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

When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and find one who resembles him.

Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.