A Film You Can Explain In Words

A Particular Type Of Film Emerged From World War Two, With The Italian Neorealist School. It Was Perfectly Right For Its Time, Which Was As Exceptional As The Reality Around Us. Our Major Interest Focused On That And On How We Could Relate To It. Later, When The Situation Normalized And Post-war Life Returned To What It Had Been In Peacetime, It Became Important To See The Intimate, Interior Consequences Of All That Had Happened.

I'm More Or Less Skeptical About Marriage, Because Of Family Ties, Relations Between Children And Parents - It's All So Depressing.

A Director Is A Man, Therefore He Has Ideas; He Is Also An Artist, Therefore He Has Imagination. Whether They Are Good Or Bad, It Seems To Me That I Have An Abundance Of Stories To Tell. And The Things I See, The Things That Happen To Me, Continually Renew The Supply.

You Know What I Would Like To Do: Make A Film With Actors Standing In Empty Space So That The Spectator Would Have To Imagine The Background Of The Characters.

Monica Vitti Is Astonishingly Mobile. Few Actresses Have Such Mobile Features. She Has Her Own Personal And Original Way Of Acting.