Occupation: Film Director Birth: March 16, 1940
I'm no longer interested in making political films. There's something old-fashioned about them. Young people now don't care for politics. It isn't pr….
I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story I want to do, in a realistic, normal story, using 3D on th….
There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance..
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father..
If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple..
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy..
I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustr….
I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is..
To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned..
You live day by day. You can't build your life..
Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema..
I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least a….
I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being abl….
I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks..
I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those..
Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late..
The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema..
Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pave….
If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film..
I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that..
Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him..