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.

The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re 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.

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

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

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

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.