I don't enter into particulars with [Ennio Morricone]. I give him the feeling and the suggestions of the characters.

When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening. So, when I'm working on a subject, I'm always looking for the element of surprise.

I think politics should be expressed in this way and not in other ways. And not just politics - sentiments, even certain states of being.

It [film-making] really just has to do with my own ghosts and phantoms. And I have to say, in the end, it's just my way of seeing things.

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

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?"

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