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

America interests me above all because it is so filled with contradictions, interesting contradictions, which change constantly. Even if you've decided that you don't want to deal with that subject again, before you know it, the desire comes back to do it yet again.

Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."

There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.

I've always felt that music is more expressive than dialogue. I've always said that my best dialogue and screenwriter is Ennio Morricone. Because, many times, it is more important a note or an orchestration than a line 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.

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