“I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.”

“I don't think any word can explain a man's life.”

“In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.”

“I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.”

“I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.”

“I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.”

“I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.”