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

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

I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.

I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.

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?"

It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.

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.