 When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. |
| Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will. |
| I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul. |
| The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience. |
| It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground. |
| Paradise is too perfect for humanity. |
| When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind. |
| I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise. |
| If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them. |
| I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. |
| I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. |
| I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like. |
