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

I have to be honest about one thing. When I want to America, no on asked me how I was. Everyone always asked me, "How much do you make?"

When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.

I had never thought of making a western even as I was making it.

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

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.

I realized than an author cannot also be a producer.