I hope that the entertainment I give has some lasting effect on people. I hope they see the beauty that I myself am seeking. I am trying to express a beauty that embraces not only physical characteristics and scenes, but the true fundamental emotions of humanity. Beauty. Beauty is what I am after.

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

What a sad business, being funny.

I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

It is my livelihood. But its responsibility lies with the film makers who, after 50 years of sound film, have not been able to give cinema an identity of its own.