My Films Always Leave Me Unsatisfied, Since

I May Film Scenes I Had No Intention Of Filming; Things Suggest Themselves On Location, And We Improvise. I Try Not To Think About It Too Much. Then, In The Cutting Room, I Take The Film And Start To Put It Together, And Only Then Do I Begin To Get An Idea Of What It Is About.

I Want My Characters To Suggest The Background In Themselves, Even When It Is Not Visible. I Want Them To Be So Powerfully Realized That We Cannot Imagine Them Apart From Their Physical And Social Context Even When We See Them In Empty Space.

When Man Becomes Reconciled To Nature, When Space Becomes His True Background, These Words And Concepts Will Have Lost Their Meaning, And We Will No Longer Have To Use Them.

The Script Is Simply A Series Of Notes For The Film.

Monica Vitti Is Astonishingly Mobile. Few Actresses Have Such Mobile Features. She Has Her Own Personal And Original Way Of Acting.