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.

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

There's much talk about the problems of youth, but young people are not a problem. It's a natural evolution of things. We, who have known only how to make war and slaughter people, have no right to judge them, nor can we teach them anything.

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.

There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience.

Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.