Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.

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.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

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

One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something