All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.

I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.

My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.

I didn't like university life much at Bologna. The subjects I studied - economics and business administration - didn't interest me. I wanted to make films. I was glad when I was graduated. Yet it's odd; on graduation day, I was overcome with a terrible sadness. I realized that my youth was over and now the struggle had begun.

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.