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

I think that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.

I really do believe that the Jesuit system is better for a country.

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

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.

The world is in America. In Italy is only Italy. France is full of France. Germany is full of Germany. In a continent that contains the entire world, contradictions are, of course, constantly arising.

Charlie Chaplin, too, through spectacle, contraband certain ideas, put them through, ideas that even today are not being expressed by great statesmen and politicians.