To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

The more you travel, the better you get at it.

In my films that I've directed, and my work in commercials and videos, I've rarely used handheld. It's just not something I'm drawn to, but I've seen it done very well.

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

As a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

I really value distinctive movies, movies that feel that they came from a person that was really something that they had conceived and they made and is a reflection of who they are.

I love 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' and I love 'Bugsy Malone.' I haven't seen 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' in a long time, but I remember loving it as a kid.

A movie that I'm involved with and have a lot of love for, which is On The Road, does use a lot of handheld. It can be done beautifully. I'm proud of that. It's a very beautiful movie.

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

Relationship movies are often made for a female audience.

Success come to those people who never ever doubt themselves!

In the wander land, we engage ourselves in writing.

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

I used to fear living a life untouched by God, but now, for some reason I've gone back to being afraid of cement mixers.

History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

I'm completely hooked on polo.