I realized than an author cannot also be a producer.

In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.

It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.

I was born in 1929, and in the 50 years from 1930 to 1980, I've been able to live an unbelievably varied century. Before, you could never have seen such intense change in a 50-year span.

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.

I think, to go to the bottom of it all, that the films I have made and my kind of film-making is a hybrid type of film-making - in that it isn't American, it isn't Italian.

I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.