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

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

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

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 like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.

I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man, I became a film critic precisely because of my knowledge of cinema. I did better than others because of this. Then I moved on to screenwriting. I wrote a film with Sergio Leone, 'Once Upon a Time in the West.' And then I moved to directing.

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.