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

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

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

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

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.