Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.
As a private person, professionally I am invisible.
I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.
Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite spontaneously. You always look at yourself from the outside. Even as a child I always observed myself and the world. I believe that everyone who chooses this path in any way, who chooses to be a describer of life, suffers from this condition. It's like a mental obsession. It can be a great pity too. It robs you of a certain joy in spontaneity.
Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself
That is one of the characteristics of fascism, the idea that the state can provide all of the answers for everyone.
I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.
Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.
To be at ease is better than to be at business.
Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites. . . [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries. . . It is likely that before long the social elites of most of the more advanced countries will be highly internationalist or globalist in spirit and outlook. . . The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty. . . Further progress will require greater American sacrifices. More intensive efforts to shape a new world monetary structure will have to be undertaken, with some consequent risk to the present relatively favorable American position.
Mornings and afternoons are my family time and I'm lucky that I can drop the kids off at school, I don't have to be at the office or anything.