I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.

There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?

Thank you to Italy. That is a crazy country but beautiful.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.

Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.

I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.

Andreotti had style and class; Berlusconi does not

Making mistakes is important because it makes you wiser.

But stories are worlds. New worlds for us to visit. In stories, we live forever.

Freedom is not reserved for those unwilling to fight for it.

Don't buy the house buy the neighborhood.

Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world

Men will not always die quietly.

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

You don't need to be flamboyant in your life to be flamboyant in your work.

When I was on acid, I would see things like beams of light and I would hear sounds that sounded an awful lot like car horns.

In any case, it is better to have some deal than no deal, but it's interesting that Obama picked the day of implementing of Iran deal to impose new sanctions on North Korea.