Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.

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

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.

I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.