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 pavement is uneven.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.

If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.

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 an attempt to create a poem.

A dolly move is a moral commitment.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

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 that it is actually another writing.

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 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 able to dream and to change the world.

The world is merciless, and it's also very beautiful.

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

Work and pray rather instead of watching and wishing.

Hope is oxygen to the soul, and God is the oxygen of hope.

I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.

Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.

Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.

Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.

Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.