Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.

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.

All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.

Especially in gangster films, with the gangster's moll - she would always be more or less of an object. And I'm not convinced of this theory. Because I think even gangsters' women have brains. They think and even, as we say, have balls.

I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.

It's very difficult to be original.

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