I don't take art as seriously as politics.

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

Criticism is the essence of creation.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

The basic and essential human is the woman.

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.