I remember that even my first impression of Italian cinema was pictures by paparazzi because my mom was reading all of these trash magazines with paparazzo pictures.

The Yanks have colonized our subconscious.

The beautiful image today means nothing. It's worthshit. In fact, it's almost as if it has the opposite effect, becauseyou're just like everything else out there.

There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

The reason I never wrote a novel is that I don't have what it takes to write characters, so they would all be talking differently. I lack that ability. If I were writing, they would all talk like me, and that's no good.

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.