Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

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.

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

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

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.