The American public is a very specialized public.

The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.

The world is in America. In Italy is only Italy. France is full of France. Germany is full of Germany. In a continent that contains the entire world, contradictions are, of course, constantly arising.

Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear. And I beg them not to imitate me, because I'm not a good actor.

The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine world, but one that allows myth to live. The myth is everything.

It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.