A film you can explain in words is not a real film.
A film that can be described in words is not really a film.
The script is simply a series of notes for the film.
Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.
I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.
I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.
My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.
It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a director, have to see the film as a whole. He must therefore collaborate selflessly, totally.