If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way.

It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

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

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.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.