Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies. |
If you don't like my movies, don't watch them. |
Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors. |
I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems. |
I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know. |
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. |
But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place. |
There's nothing gratuitous about my films. |
Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better. |
It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad. |
To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects. |
I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story. |
So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time. |
In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul. |
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. |
When I was five. That's when I started to love film. |
My life and career is my own adventure. |
I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. |
But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly. |
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love. |