I Always Direct The Same

Objects And Their Functions No Longer Had Any Significance. All I Perceived Was Perception Itself, The Hell Of Forms And Figures Devoid Of Human Emotion And Detached From The Reality Of My Unreal Environment. I Was An Instrument In A Virtual World That Constantly Renewed Its Own Meaningless Image In A Living World That Was Itself Perceived Outside Of Nature. And Since The Appearance Of Things Was No Longer Definitive But Limitless, This Paradisiacal Awareness Freed Me From The Reality External To Myself. The Fire And The Rose, As It Were, Became One.

I Don't Believe In Total Freedom For The Artist. Left On His Own, Free To Do Anything He Likes, The Artist Ends Up Doing Nothing At All. If There's One Thing That's Dangerous For An Artist, It's Precisely This Question Of Total Freedom, Waiting For Inspiration And All The Rest Of It.

Marriage, If It Is To Survive, Must Be Treated As The Beginning, Not As The Happy Ending.

The Only Place Where You Can Be A Dictator And Still Be Loved Is On The Movie Set

There Is No Such Thing As A Good Paparazzo. A Good Paparazzo, That's A Paparazzo Who Has Had His Camera Broken. In Fact, They Are Bandits, Thieves Of Photography. (statement After Photographs Were Published Showing Jackie Onassis Sunbathing Nude.)