I didnt go to film school, i went to films

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

Leni Riefenstahl was the one person Goebbels had no control over in the filmmaking community of Nazi Germany, and they despised each other. But because she was Hitler's favorite, she could do what she wanted. She was the only filmmaker that did not have to cow down to Joseph Goebbels.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

You know, the art films would usually be more, I mean the exploitation movies would usually be more lurid, but not that much more. I mean, actually back in those days that was what foreign films had. They had sex, they were selling Laura Antonelli.