The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

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

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

I probably have genius. But no talent.

I just finished a film a few days ago, and I came home and said I learned so much today. So if I can come home from working on a little film after doing it for 45 years and say, "I learned so much today," that shows something about the cinema. Because the cinema is very young. It's only 100 years old.

Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.