All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.

I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.

I am searching as Diogenes did with his lantern for all of these wonderful human beings. I haven't found them yet.

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.

There's my pessimism. Because I didn't know yet that type of film is always going to become more extinct, that there won't be anymore. Because there will always be more films that win five Oscars like Terms of Endearment.

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

As Claude LeLouche said, his favorite American director is Sergio Leone. Not because I would be American, but because I was dealing with subject matter that an American could have just as easily dealt with.