People Are Always Misquoting Me.

Before Each New Setup, I Chase Everyone Off The Set In Order To Be Alone And Look Through The Camera. In That Moment, The Film Seems Quite Easy. But Then The Others Come In And Everything Becomes Difficult.

I'm More Or Less Skeptical About Marriage, Because Of Family Ties, Relations Between Children And Parents - It's All So Depressing.

Reality Itself Is Steadily Becoming More Colored. Think Of What Factories Were Like, Especially In Italy At The Beginning Of The 19th Century, When Industrialization Was Just Beginning: Gray, Brown And Smoky. Color Didn't Exist. Today, Instead, Most Everything Is Colored. The Pipe Running From The Basement To The 12th Floor Is Green Because It Carries Steam. The One Carrying Electricity Is Red, And That With Water Is Purple. Also, Plastic Colors Have Filled Our Homes, Even Revolutionized Our Taste. Pop Art Grew Out Of That And Was Possible Because Of This Change In Taste.

Take Einstein; Wasn't He Looking For Something Stable And Changeless In This Enormous, Constantly Changing Melting Pot That Is The Universe? He Sought Fixed Rules. Today, Instead, It Would Be Helpful To Find All Those Rules That Show How And Why The Universe Is Not Fixed - How This Dynamism Develops And Acts. Then Maybe We Will Be Able To Explain Many Things, Perhaps Even Art, Because The Old Instruments Of Judgment, The Old Aesthetics, Are No Longer Of Any Use To Us - So Much So That We No Longer Know What's Beautiful And What Isn't.

Till Now I Have Never Shot A Scene Without Taking Account Of What Stands Behind The Actors Because The Relationship Between People And Their Surroundings Is Of Prime Importance.