In Any Case, The Idea Of Giving

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.

We Live In A Society That Compels Us To Go On Using These Concepts, And We No Longer Know What They Mean.

The Photographer In Blow-up, Who Is Not A Philosopher, Wants To See Things Closer Up. But It So Happens That, By Enlarging Too Far, The Object Itself Decomposes And Disappears. Hence There's A Moment In Which We Grasp Reality, But Then The Moment Passes. This Was In Part The Meaning Of Blow-up.

There's Much Talk About The Problems Of Youth, But Young People Are Not A Problem. It's A Natural Evolution Of Things. We, Who Have Known Only How To Make War And Slaughter People, Have No Right To Judge Them, Nor Can We Teach Them Anything.

I Didn't Like University Life Much At Bologna. The Subjects I Studied - Economics And Business Administration - Didn't Interest Me. I Wanted To Make Films. I Was Glad When I Was Graduated. Yet It's Odd; On Graduation Day, I Was Overcome With A Terrible Sadness. I Realized That My Youth Was Over And Now The Struggle Had Begun.