Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.

Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to that period. I had known Fellini and I had known Antonioni. I had made a movie with Antonioni and I had visited Fellini in his studios. So, it seemed like something worthwhile doing. You bring yourself to that mythical cinema.

I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

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

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.