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

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.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

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

I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man. I certainly don`t have to justify myself to anyone about this. I don`t care what anyone thinks or reads into it. I have often had journalists walk out of interviews when I say what I feel about this subject.

You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.