To me, America is just another market.

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them. It's my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.

To really get to know people and discover humanity, which is what I truly think writers and actors do, you've got to be interested in other human beings, you have to be interested in humanity in general, and you have to do some discovering of humanity and different people.

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.