People are always misquoting me.

Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in the future. We know only that it is something dynamic - unlike many ideas that have governed us.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

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

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

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 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.