When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.

All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.

The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine world, but one that allows myth to live. The myth is everything.

I must be honest and say that I was under the fascination of films. I was fascinated by all films, even the words of them. If I was to do a more-precise analysis of the situation, I have to admit that I was more entertained by the bad films than the good ones. Because when something is beautiful, it is there; it is finished; it is done. It doesn't have to be touched or be worked upon.

Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America.

I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.

Because the life that I live - the life that we all live - is filtered through [one's own] experience. It isn't necessarily optimistic when you look at the political phenomena, the different things that are going on in the world.