It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

I am a person of the 18th century.

The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

Expose the Jesuit order and learn about the global genocide. Speak out, even when what you have to say is not popular.

Know when to push, pull or hold your followers, lest you push them while they are on the edge of a cliff

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose - words in their best order poetry - the best words in their best order.

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.

Color is the first revelation of the world.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.

I'm sure there are a lot of Italians who refer to themselves as goombahs and greaseballs and whatever. That's what people do. It gives them a sort of familiarity that other people don't have.