Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Thankful another tomorrow greetsAs I drink from cup of time And prepare to lock the door behind meand leave it to others

Wisdom does not only reflect itself in a person’s knowledge of what to say. It appears also in his knowledge about how to say it and when it should be said!

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

We must give Italians a sense of race.

In the end, your creativity -- perhaps even your outrageousness -- will determine the final result.

Without conviction that you can make change happen, you will not act, even if you see the vision. Your feelings will hold you back.

I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be. I thought, 'If I'm successful, I can change her life.'

The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it