What I was talking about was, of course, very autobiographical - '68 was the moment when all the young people were incredibly excited, because when we were going to sleep, we knew we would wake up not tomorrow, but in the future. There was a sense of future that was the result of the mixture of politics, cinema, music, the first joints. And the movies were a very important part of that cocktail.

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.

Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.

I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.

Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him.

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.