To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.

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

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

Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.

I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the late '50s, early '60s was Italian comedy, Italian style, which, to me, was like the end of neo-realism. I think cinema all over the world was influenced by it, which was Italy finding its freedom at the end of fascism, the end of the Nazi invasion. It was a kind of incredible energy. Then, late '50s, early '60s, the neo-realism lost its great energy and became comedy.

New York has always embraced me.