You Cannot Penetrate Events With Reportage.

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.

The Script Is Simply A Series Of Notes For The Film.

In Blow-up I Used My Head Instinctively!

A Film You Can Explain In Words Is Not A Real Film.

When Man Becomes Reconciled To Nature, When Space Becomes His True Background, These Words And Concepts Will Have Lost Their Meaning, And We Will No Longer Have To Use Them.