I Don't Know Whether I Am Ever

My Films Always Leave Me Unsatisfied, Since I've Always Worked Under Fairly Disastrous Conditions Economically.

All I Know Is That We Are Loaded Down With Old And Stale Stuff - Habits, Customs, Old Attitudes Already Dead And Gone.

You Cannot Penetrate Events With Reportage.

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 Dislike Judging Myself, But I Will Say I Would Be Wealthy Today If I Had Accepted All The Films That Have Been Offered To Me With Large Sums Of Money. But I've Always Refused, In Order To Do What I Felt Like Doing.