The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.
My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.
You have to kill the bad guy.
I always say my age is connected with three Cs. In here, cuore, which means the heart. Up here, cervello, which is the brain. And, of course, down here: the coglioni. I no feel my age, I tell you.
To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.
Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.
If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.
I don't have a Wikiquotes page.
Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.
The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.
No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.