“Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.”

I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say – in one place. It’s something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!

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

I haven’t made a movie for a while, but I’ve watched a lot. It’s my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

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

This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films, can think cinematographically, eat cinematographically, sleep cinematographically, as a poet, a painter, lives, eats, sleeps painting.

I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.

I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.

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.

What I was talking about was, of course, very autobiographical – ’68 was the moment when all the young people were incredibly excited, because when we were going to sleep, we knew we would wake up not tomorrow, but in the future.

I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.

New York has always embraced me.

You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?

The most important thing of all, the thing that lasted, was the first feminist movement and the position of women in society. That completely changed and that was very, very important.

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

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

There’s no more film; now everything’s digital. I welcome this. It’s fantastic for me to have a new chance.

Sometimes I wonder if I met everyone in my life in the wrong order.

Sometimes you can fix something that went wrong with what you do next and make it better than it would have been if it hadn’t gone wrong, as an improviser, and I do know how to do that.

Sometimes you can fix something that went wrong with what you do next and make it better than it would have been if it hadn’t gone wrong, as an improviser, and I do know how to do that.

A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.

Sometimes it’s lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.

Sometimes Plan B can have the same desired outcome, but a different path for getting there.

Sometimes you’re not getting the laughs you want or at the place you want but that doesn’t mean it’s not funny. It means you haven’t explored it enough.

Sometimes there’s only one; more often, there are multitudes.