"In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd."
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"I don't know whether I am ever bored. I never look at myself."
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"I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head at the moment of shooting."
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"I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain."
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"That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on love that is only about the conquest of happiness, the effort to arrive at what we call love. It's the struggle that has always interested those who produce works of art - literature, cinema or poetry."
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"It isn't easy to understand the lives of people different from your own."
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"One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government."
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"When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked most are those I think least about."
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"Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't."
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"I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films."
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"Before each new setup, I chase everyone off the set in order to be alone and look through the camera. In that moment, the film seems quite easy. But then the others come in and everything becomes difficult."
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"Women are a finer filter of reality. They can sniff things."
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"I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society .... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth."
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"I've always dreamed of getting to know the women of other countries better. When I was a boy, I remember, I used to get angry at the thought that I did not know German or American or Swedish women."
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"My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically."
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"Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere."
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"I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her."
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"My films have always had an element of immediate autobiography, in that I shoot any particular scene according to the mood I'm in that day, according to the little daily experiences I've had and am having - but I don't tell what has happened to me. I would like to do something more strictly autobiographical, but perhaps I never will, because it isn't interesting enough."
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"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."
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"Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster."
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