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

"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…"

"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…"

"A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are goo…"