“My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so many. I remember I went to school close to my mother's studio, and for years, I went to the stud...”

“When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.”

“If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.”

“For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'”

“I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father's books with me. They were fanta...”

“Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination. For m...”

“How I describe myself??I guy who likes to be in state of confuse, being confuse makes me incredible in thinking!”

“As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the incredible has tended to blur; I am aware that the whole world is sli...”

“I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.”

“When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.”

“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.”

“Censorship exists to protect corruption.”

“Never marry someone who doesnt love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love you.”

“It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.”

“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”