I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.

I never worry about what they think about me. Because I feel so far away from what my Italian colleagues have done that I almost automatically become an isolated director.

[The director] has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues in order to tell and depict the situation that spreads to people.

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

Especially in gangster films, with the gangster's moll - she would always be more or less of an object. And I'm not convinced of this theory. Because I think even gangsters' women have brains. They think and even, as we say, have balls.

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.

America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.