Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.
When I was five. That's when I started to love film.
To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.
When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.
It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.
I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.
I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.
I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.