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.

I don't know whether I am ever bored. I never look at myself.

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

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

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

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

I dislike judging myself, but I will say I would be wealthy today if I had accepted all the films that have been offered to me with large sums of money. But I've always refused, in order to do what I felt like doing.