I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.

I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate.

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

I always loved experimenting in film.

I think my mother became the muse because she had everything when she was in Hollywood: she had the marriage, the success, the money, all the films she wanted to do and yet even her, she had a longing and wanted to work with a film that had meaning, something more profound. And I think that was very touching to father.

I don't think a Hollywood actor is safe from acting in the rain: it all depends on the film.

Mama wrote a letter to my father saying' I want to work with you' and she ended the letter saying' in Italian I can only say ti amo( I love you)' and of course the press used that to say women are sexual predators, in 1949 they made a first film together,' Stromboli', and they fell in love and my mother became pregnant with my brother Roberto before she could obtain a divorce.