I think that Hollywood should also be influenced by directors from Hong Kong. You see how Quentin Tarantino is really the example of how you can deve….

A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I've been called by a million names all my life. I don't want a name. I'm better off with a grunt or a groan for a….

I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed..

What I was talking about was, of course, very autobiographical - '68 was the moment when all the young people were incredibly excited, because when w….

What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvell….

I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the l….

Every film I have made has corresponded to a very special moment of my life. I like to think that if someone wanted to reconstruct the story of my li….

You know, in ten years you're gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?.

New York has always embraced me..

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct..

Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness..

I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work..

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is ….

I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment..

A dolly move is a moral commitment..

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important..

This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films, can think cinematographically, eat cinem….

After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth..

The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which ….

The life before '68 was very different from the life after '68. Before '68, our days were full of authoritarian moments. There were authorities every….

I think that what I learned then, I didn't know I was learning. I just knew that I was very privileged to see somebody who was a writer, a great poet….