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.

Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.

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.

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

I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain.

You cannot penetrate events with reportage.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.