“I don’t see my movies. I think it’s healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I’m afraid to be disappointed.”

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.

Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.

Every film I have made has corresponded to a very special moment of my life. I like to think that if someone wanted to reconstruct the story of my life, they can just see my movies and know what I have been through.

Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

I’m not disappointed in [Barack] Obama. He said who he is; he’s doing what he said he would do.

Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.

If you are tuning in just for the show, you’re going to be sorely disappointed.