You Cannot Penetrate Events With Reportage.

Sometimes Actors' Mistakes Give Me Ideas I Can Use, Because Mistakes Are Always Sincere, Absolutely Sincere.

Favourite Directors Change, Like Favorite Authors. I Had A Passion For Gide And Stein And Faulkner. But Now They're No Use To Me Anymore. I've Assimilated Them - So, Enough, They Are A Closed Chapter. This Also Applies To Film Directors.

Innovation Comes Spontaneously. I Don't Know If I've Done Anything New. If I Have, It's Just Because I Had Begun To Feel For Some Time That I Couldn't Stand Certain Films, Certain Modes, Certain Ways Of Telling A Story, Certain Tricks Of Plot Development, All Of It Predictable And Useless.

In Blow-up I Used My Head Instinctively!

A Scene Has To Have A Rhythm Of Its Own, A Structure Of Its Own.