I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into my work, I get lost sometimes in bizarre things - it's my Italian heritage.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start.

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

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.

My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something.

'Godfather' was very classical, the way it was shot, the style, the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.