Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America.

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

The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

As Claude LeLouche said, his favorite American director is Sergio Leone. Not because I would be American, but because I was dealing with subject matter that an American could have just as easily dealt with.

We're talking a very cultivated people, but I found as cultivated as they were, they were uninformed about the personages who weren't American. They knew everything about America, but much less about other countries.

I never worry about what they think about me. Because I feel so far away from what my Italian colleagues have done that I almost automatically become an isolated director.

It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.