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

If a director takes the time to document - to step back to observe - I think it I more honest. Because it has to be the public that makes the conclusions and who, possibly, resolves the situation.

There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.

The American public is a very specialized public.

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

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.

There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.