Monica Vitti Is Astonishingly Mobile. Few Actresses

Do You Really Think A Man Must Be Strong, Masculine, Dominating, And The Woman Frail, Obedient And Sensitive? This Is A Conventional Idea. Reality Is Quite Different.

It's Only Human And Natural That An Actor Should See The Film In Terms Of His Own Part, But I, As A Director, Have To See The Film As A Whole. He Must Therefore Collaborate Selflessly, Totally.

The Script Is A Starting Point, Not A Fixed Highway. I Must Look Through The Camera To See If What I've Written On The Page Is Right Or Not. In The Script, You Describe Imagined Scenes, But It's All Suspended In Mid-air. Often, An Actor Viewed Against A Wall Or A Landscape, Or Seen Through A Window, Is Much More Eloquent Than The Lines You've Given Him. So Then You Take Out The Lines. This Happens Often To Me And I End Up Saying What I Want With A Movement Or A Gesture.

We Know That Behind Every Image Revealed There Is Another Image More Faithful To Reality, And In The Back Of That Image There Is Another, And Yet Another Behind The Last One, And So On, Up To The True Image Of That Absolute, Mysterious Reality That No One Will Ever See.

When I See Nature, When I Look Into The Sky, The Dawn, The Sun, The Colors Of Insects, Snow Crystals, The Night Stars, I Don't Feel A Need For God. Perhaps When I Can No Longer Look And Wonder, When I Believe In Nothing - Then, Perhaps, I Might Need Something Else. But I Don't Know What.