In Blow-up I Used My Head Instinctively!

All The Characters In My Films Are Fighting These Problems, Needing Freedom, Trying To Find A Way To Cut Themselves Loose, But Failing To Rid Themselves Of Conscience, A Sense Of Sin, The Whole Bag Of Tricks.

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

The Photographer In Blow-up, Who Is Not A Philosopher, Wants To See Things Closer Up. But It So Happens That, By Enlarging Too Far, The Object Itself Decomposes And Disappears. Hence There's A Moment In Which We Grasp Reality, But Then The Moment Passes. This Was In Part The Meaning Of Blow-up.

It's Untrue To Say The Colors I Use Are Not Those Of Reality. They Are Real: The Red I Use Is Red; The Green, Green; Blue, Blue; And Yellow, Yellow. It's A Matter Of Arranging Them Differently From The Way I Find Them, But They Are Always Real Colors. So It's Not True That When I Tint A Road Or A Wall, They Become Unreal. They Stay Real, Though Colored Differently For My Scene.

When I Am Shooting A Film I Never Think Of How I Want To Shoot Something; I Simply Shoot It.