I Don't Know Whether I Am Ever

I Rarely Feel The Desire To Reread A Scene The Day Before The Shooting. Sometimes I Arrive At The Place Where The Work Is To Be Done And I Do Not Even Know What I Am Going To Shoot. This Is The System I Prefer: To Arrive At The Moment When Shooting Is About To Begin, Absolutely Unprepared, Virgin. I Often Ask To Be Left Alone On The Spot For Fifteen Minutes Or Half An Hour And I Let My Thoughts Wander Freely.

Method Actors Are Absolutely Terrible. They Want To Direct Themselves, And It's A Disaster.

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.

I Am Neither A Sociologist Nor A Politician. All I Can Do Is Imagine For Myself What The Future Will Be Like.

The Family Today Counts For Less And Less. Why? Who Knows - The Growth Of Science, The Cold War, The Atomic Bomb, The World War We've Made, The New Philosophies We've Created; Certainly Something Is Happening To Man, So Why Go Against It, Why Oblige This New Man To Live By The Mechanisms And Regulations Of The Past?