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.

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

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.

Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination. For me, it would be impossible to do a film that is so precise, that resembles real life.

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

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.

Theres nothing gratuitous about my films.