To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible
You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.
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.
Only two percent of the ocean is fully protected right now.
I've exceeded a few of my goals, but I'm behind on a couple of others.
The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to die early, you spend the rest of your life avoiding failure. When you can free your True Self, the whole spiritual life opens up.
I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.