When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.

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

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.

It's natural to me that someone who loved that type of music or that type of spectacle would copy it, to do something, a video. It seems the most natural thing in the world to me.

When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.

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.

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