It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.

As far as commercials were concerned, I did very few, and I did them only when they gave me carte blanche to them the way that I wanted to. And I did them as an exercise, because I, who do very long films, never thought I would be able to tell a story in 30 or 40 seconds - you come across a whole new system and manner of approaching a subject.

I'm not saying that the Americans had the same impact as the Jesuits, but I do see them as a very specialized populace, even in terms of being, to a degree, naïve. Because naiveté comes from lack of information.

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

Young people of this century, like my son, didn't live through all those things that went on during that period of time, from 1930 to 1950. They're missing that experience. To go from a bicycle to a vehicle that takes somebody to the moon - only we saw this kind of thing.

It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.

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