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

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.

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

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

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

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