I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.

New York has always embraced me.

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

This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films, can think cinematographically, eat cinematographically, sleep cinematographically, as a poet, a painter, lives, eats, sleeps painting.

I think that what I learned then, I didn't know I was learning. I just knew that I was very privileged to see somebody who was a writer, a great poet, and very smart-faced. Suddenly Pasolini becomes a director, so he has to invent cinema. It was like watching the invention of cinema. But I found out that Pasolini taught me a lot. It was, especially, the kind of respect that he had for reality. He had kind of epiphanies in his movies, like when a moment becomes full of grace, and it is like as if it was the most important moment in the life of a character.

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

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.