It Isn't Easy To Understand The Lives

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.

My Work Is Like Digging, It's Archaeological Research Among The Arid Materials Of Our Times. That's How I Understand My First Films, And That's What I'm Still Doing...

I Began Taking Liberties A Long Time Ago; Now It Is Standard Practice For Most Directors To Ignore The Rules.

Neorealism Taught Us To Follow The Characters With The Camera, Allowing Each Shot Its Own Real Interior Time. Well, I Became Tired Of All This; I Could No Longer Stand Real Time. In Order To Function, A Shot Must Show Only What Is Useful.

I Want An Actor To Try To Give Me What I Ask In The Best And Most Exact Way Possible. He Mustn't Try To Find Out More, Because Then There's The Danger That He'll Become His Own Director.