So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite.

I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.

Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast