The Women I Like, No Matter What

A Woman's Sex Appeal Is An Inner Matter. It Stems From Her Mental Make-up, Basically. It's An Attitude, Not Just A Question Of Her Physical Features - That Arrogant Quality In A Woman's Femininity. Otherwise, All Beautiful Women Would Have Sex Appeal, Which Is Not So.

Often To Understand, We Have To Look Into Emptiness.

It's Untrue To Say The Colors I Use Are Not Those Of Reality. They Are Real: The Red I Use Is Red; The Green, Green; Blue, Blue; And Yellow, Yellow. It's A Matter Of Arranging Them Differently From The Way I Find Them, But They Are Always Real Colors. So It's Not True That When I Tint A Road Or A Wall, They Become Unreal. They Stay Real, Though Colored Differently For My Scene.

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.

My Films Always Leave Me Unsatisfied, Since I've Always Worked Under Fairly Disastrous Conditions Economically.