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.
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 see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.
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. There was a sense of future that was the result of the mixture of politics, cinema, music, the first joints. And the movies were a very important part of that cocktail.
The life before '68 was very different from the life after '68. Before '68, our days were full of authoritarian moments. There were authorities everywhere. In fact, the movement of '68 was young people against their authorities, children against their parents. And that remained. 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.
If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.
After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.
Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.
New York has always embraced me.
I think that Hollywood should also be influenced by directors from Hong Kong. You see how Quentin Tarantino is really the example of how you can develop, and how you can go ahead if you accept the existence of different cinematic cultures. There you have Quentin playing with kung-fu. That's why the independents are the most interesting.
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!
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.
You know, in ten years you're gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?
If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.
