In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

I have falling in love with reading.

The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.

Somebody like you taught somebody like me.

Those women like to see their tongues dance.

The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing.

A harmless necessary cat.