Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.