Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.
I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.
I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn’t advanced as far as science.
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
The moment always comes when, having collected one’s ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development- whether psychological or material- one must pass on to the actual realization.
Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
You cannot penetrate events with reportage.
Hollywood doesn’t believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
I may film scenes I had no intention of filming; things suggest themselves on location, and we improvise. I try not to think about it too much. Then, in the cutting room, I take the film and start to put it together, and only then do I begin to get an idea of what it is about.
In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!
People are always misquoting me.
Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.