It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust.

I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.