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

It's natural to me that someone who loved that type of music or that type of spectacle would copy it, to do something, a video. It seems the most natural thing in the world to me.

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.

The very fact of seeking specialization is probably what makes America so great in these two hundred years. But also, the sensation that somebody who wants to understand America doesn't really need to visit it much.

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

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine world, but one that allows myth to live. The myth is everything.