Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.
I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.
The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.
I didn't like university life much at Bologna. The subjects I studied - economics and business administration - didn't interest me. I wanted to make films. I was glad when I was graduated. Yet it's odd; on graduation day, I was overcome with a terrible sadness. I realized that my youth was over and now the struggle had begun.
The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb, the world war we've made, the new philosophies we've created; certainly something is happening to man, so why go against it, why oblige this new man to live by the mechanisms and regulations of the past?
Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.
When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.
From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.
Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.