I'm Not Rich And Maybe I'll Never

After You've Learned Two Or Three Basic Rules Of Cinema Grammar, You Can Do What You Like - Including Breaking Those Rules.

I Never Think In Terms Of Alienation; It's The Others Who Do. Alienation Means One Thing To Hegel, Another To Marx And Yet Another To Freud; So It Is Not Possible To Give A Single Definition, One That Will Exhaust The Subject. It Is A Question Bordering On Philosophy, And I'm Not A Philosopher Nor A Sociologist. My Business Is To Tell Stories, To Narrate With Images - Nothing Else. If I Do Make Films About Alienation - To Use That Word That Is So Ambiguous - They Are About Characters, Not About Me.

That Love Is A Conflict Seems To Me Obvious And Natural. There Isn't A Single Worthwhile Work In World Literature Based On Love That Is Only About The Conquest Of Happiness, The Effort To Arrive At What We Call Love. It's The Struggle That Has Always Interested Those Who Produce Works Of Art - Literature, Cinema Or Poetry.

When I See A Good Film, It's Like A Whiplash. I Run Away, In Order Not To Be Influenced. Thus, The Films I Liked Most Are Those I Think Least About.

My Films Have Always Had An Element Of Immediate Autobiography, In That I Shoot Any Particular Scene According To The Mood I'm In That Day, According To The Little Daily Experiences I've Had And Am Having - But I Don't Tell What Has Happened To Me. I Would Like To Do Something More Strictly Autobiographical, But Perhaps I Never Will, Because It Isn't Interesting Enough.