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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.

I Didn't Like University Life Much At Bologna. The Subjects I Studied - Economics And Business Administration - Didn't Interest Me. I Wanted To Make Films. I Was Glad When I Was Graduated. Yet It's Odd; On Graduation Day, I Was Overcome With A Terrible Sadness. I Realized That My Youth Was Over And Now The Struggle Had Begun.

Monica Vitti Is Astonishingly Mobile. Few Actresses Have Such Mobile Features. She Has Her Own Personal And Original Way Of Acting.

The Script Is A Starting Point, Not A Fixed Highway. I Must Look Through The Camera To See If What I've Written On The Page Is Right Or Not. In The Script, You Describe Imagined Scenes, But It's All Suspended In Mid-air. Often, An Actor Viewed Against A Wall Or A Landscape, Or Seen Through A Window, Is Much More Eloquent Than The Lines You've Given Him. So Then You Take Out The Lines. This Happens Often To Me And I End Up Saying What I Want With A Movement Or A Gesture.

There Can Be No Censorship Better Than One's Own Conscience.