You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.

If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.

A lot of the young people make beautiful films or big films or are able to finance them, but they can't get anyone to distribute them, they can't get anyone to see them, so they go to these thousands of film festivals. So I still believe that even though a young kid might be able to make a masterpiece or something that changes the direction of cinema, the issue of how to get it to people is still not solved.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.

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

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.