Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.

For when he was poor, he had an unpretentious heart, but when he became rich, he became filled with arrogance.

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Christ was the first to be resurrected and never die again.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

There are laws of the universe and if you practice them they will respond to you.

To know how to live is my trade and my art.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.