All The Characters In My Films Are

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.

Innovation Comes Spontaneously. I Don't Know If I've Done Anything New. If I Have, It's Just Because I Had Begun To Feel For Some Time That I Couldn't Stand Certain Films, Certain Modes, Certain Ways Of Telling A Story, Certain Tricks Of Plot Development, All Of It Predictable And Useless.

I've Always Played Down The Drama In My Films. In My Main Scenes, There's Never An Opportunity For An Actor To Let Go Of Everything He's Got Inside. I Always Try To Tone Down The Acting, Because My Stories Demand It, To The Point Where I Might Change A Script So That An Actor Has No Opportunity To Come Out Well.

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.

The Greatest Danger For Those Working In The Cinema Is The Extraordinary Possibility It Offers For Lying.