You don'’t always have to have the answer to everything.

It's a very stressful thing, directing a movie. You have the budget, you have the schedule, you are in certain confines, and you have everybody giving you advice about what to do.

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand?

Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.

When you are working hard, you don't have time for anything other than what you are doing in the scene and what the director wants.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.