I think, to go to the bottom of it all, that the films I have made and my kind of film-making is a hybrid type of film-making - in that it isn't American, it isn't Italian.

I really do believe that the Jesuit system is better for a country.

Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."

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

It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.

America interests me above all because it is so filled with contradictions, interesting contradictions, which change constantly. Even if you've decided that you don't want to deal with that subject again, before you know it, the desire comes back to do it yet again.

My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].