After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy.

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

We’re such contrary creatures

Maybe I'm not going to be able to do a deal with Russia, but at least I will have tried. And if I don't, does anybody really think that Hillary Clinton would be tougher on Russia than Donald Trump?

Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

There is nothing I love more than my role as a mom.

I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.

Those accept an obligation lightly who feel lightly about letting it drop.

When I was young I would ask everybody what life was about. Now it's clear to me that the image of each existence shows its own answer to that question.