My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been el….

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you..

It was a film that I knew, that I had seen, that I was familiar with, but I wasn't anxious about it at any point during the screening. I snoozed twic….

Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller..

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture..

I don't ask my students to have studied film or any education in general. What I ask them is to come and sit and tell me a story, and the way they ch….

This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films..

This kind of directing, I think, is very similar to being a football coach. You prepare your players and place them in the right places, but once the….

Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing..

I often say to my students in workshops that if they are trying to find literary inspiration, they should not go and read novels, because novels are ….

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do..

A movie is about human beings, about humanity..

Children are very strong and independent characters and can come up with more interesting things than Marlon Brando, and it's sometimes very difficul….

I thought that I had been asked every kind of question possible..

I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it..

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in..

My last experience of film-making was Tickets, a three-episode film in Italy, the third of which is directed by myself. It's not for me to judge whet….

I have somewhat lost my enthusiasm in the last years. Mainly because film students using digital video these days have not really produced anything w….

There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think saying you are "like" so….

When I find the character, I try to spend time with them and get to know them very well. Therefore my notes are not from the character that I had in ….

It seems that film-makers are being divided between those working in digital and those who are not. I think it's not something predetermined - it all….