A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time, which was as exceptional as the reality around us. Our major interest focused on that and on how we could relate to it. Later, when the situation normalized and post-war life returned to what it had been in peacetime, it became important to see the intimate, interior consequences of all that had happened.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.

After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.

Another reason for switching to color is world television. In a few years, it will all be in color, and you can't compete against that with black-and-white films.

Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.