The Public Buys "art" - But The

I'm Not Rich And Maybe I'll Never Be Rich. Money Is Useful - Yes - But I Don't Worship It.

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.

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.

We Know That Behind Every Image Revealed There Is Another Image More Faithful To Reality, And In The Back Of That Image There Is Another, And Yet Another Behind The Last One, And So On, Up To The True Image Of That Absolute, Mysterious Reality That No One Will Ever See.

Everyone Has Understood Me In His Own Way. But I Would Have To Understand Myself First In Order To Judge - And So Far, I Haven't.