In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

I mean simply to say that 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 don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.

But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after.

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

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

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

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 began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

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

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

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

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me, although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides.

Megaupload is not responsible for the piracy problem. It's the old business model of Hollywood that is responsible for it, and they want to keep that model alive at any cost.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist.' And then they'd walk away real quickly.

Oh, my gosh, I've never seen a film unless, you know, if I have to go and do ADR, loop-loop. But I don't watch after. I'm too critical.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.

I left 'L.A. Law' after five years when my contract was up because I felt I had done all I could do with the character. I didn't walk off the show with a three-picture deal to pursue this wonderful film career.

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

Youre somewhat useful at work but irreplaceable at happy hour.

AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.

Making modern games funny would be easy as pie if it was anybody's goal to actually make a funny game.

I like a role that is challenging. That's what I look for and I'm certainly always looking to move further and maybe push myself into a place that might be temporarily uncomfortable so that I might learn something.

Time give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.

Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind.

In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

When people take off the headset, they immediately have a creative idea about what they can make in virtual reality, and a lot of them immediately want to get involved.

An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.

This wind is mystical yet tame, and it sings to me.

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.