Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.

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

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.

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

Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

A film you can explain in words is not a real film.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

If you want to know how to swim, you take lessons. If you want to walk on water, lessons won´t help you, just faith.

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks you are a pretty rich man.

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

If our country got along with Russia, that would be a great thing.

As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

I think there are fundamentalists all over the world. I think all religions have fundamentalists who have different interpretations of scriptures that are very vague.

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.

Ayame: Hello, Tori-san!! You're not going to believe what Yuki just told me!

It's comprised of both Republicans and Democrats and their membership in this club known as the establishment, party affiliation is second or third in terms of your qualifications to be in the club.