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.

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

I can never understand how we have been able to follow these worn-out tracks, which have been laid down by panic in the face of nature.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after.

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.