When I'm Sure I Have A Story,

Today We No Longer Know What To Call Art, What Its Function Is And Even Less What Function It Will Have In The Future. We Know Only That It Is Something Dynamic - Unlike Many Ideas That Have Governed Us.

A Particular Type Of Film Emerged From World War Two, With The Italian Neorealist School. It Was Perfectly Right For Its Time, Which Was As Exceptional As The Reality Around Us. Our Major Interest Focused On That And On How We Could Relate To It. Later, When The Situation Normalized And Post-war Life Returned To What It Had Been In Peacetime, It Became Important To See The Intimate, Interior Consequences Of All That Had Happened.

I Can't Give Any Absolute Definition Of What Love Is, Or Even Whether It Ought To Exist.

It Isn't Easy To Understand The Lives Of People Different From Your Own.

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