I work with intuition. With interpreters. I have my own method. I know exactly what I want from actors. Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear.

I was born in 1929, and in the 50 years from 1930 to 1980, I've been able to live an unbelievably varied century. Before, you could never have seen such intense change in a 50-year span.

I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very specialized.

Young people of this century, like my son, didn't live through all those things that went on during that period of time, from 1930 to 1950. They're missing that experience. To go from a bicycle to a vehicle that takes somebody to the moon - only we saw this kind of thing.

Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.

It's very difficult to be original.

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.