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Sometimes Actors' Mistakes Give Me Ideas I Can Use, Because Mistakes Are Always Sincere, Absolutely Sincere.

Innovation Comes Spontaneously. I Don't Know If I've Done Anything New. If I Have, It's Just Because I Had Begun To Feel For Some Time That I Couldn't Stand Certain Films, Certain Modes, Certain Ways Of Telling A Story, Certain Tricks Of Plot Development, All Of It Predictable And Useless.

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.

When I'm Sure I Have A Story, I Call My Collaborators And We Begin To Discuss It. And We Conduct Studies Of Certain Subjects To Make Sure Of Our Terrain. Then, Finally, In The Last Month Or Two, I Write The Story.

Today We No Longer Know What To Call Art, What Its Function Is And Even Less What Function It Will Have In The Future. We Know Only That It Is Something Dynamic - Unlike Many Ideas That Have Governed Us.