"I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules."

"You mustn't ask me to explain everything I do. I can't. That's that. How can I say why at a certain moment I needed t…"

"The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying."

"My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand …"

"Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing."

"The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enla…"

"I am not a theoretician of the cinema. If you ask me what directing is, the first answer that comes into my head is: …"

"The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of develop…"

"For me, from the moment when the first, still unformed, idea comes into my head until the projection of the rushes, t…"

"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it. My technique, which diff…"