Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

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.

Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives.

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

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

The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.

Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.