“To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back… abandoned.”

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.

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story I want to do, in a realistic, normal story, using 3D on the emotions in a kind of intimate story.

A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I’ve been called by a million names all my life. I don’t want a name. I’m better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.

Everyone’s got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It’s a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one.

Realism’ has been abandoned in the search for reality: the ‘principal objective’ of abstract art is precisely this reality.

I need an endorphin boost. And making out in an abandoned barn with me will give you one? No, it will probably put me in an endorphin coma, and im more than happy to test the theory.

The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.

We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.

It is an absolute declaration of the fact that within my heart I have abandoned worship at the Cross.

Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.

European governments recognized this and abandoned their resistance to weapons deliveries. Germany, too, acted correctly.