Often To Understand, We Have To Look

Scientific Man Is Already On The Moon, And Yet We Are Still Living With The Moral Concepts Of Homer.

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.

All I Know Is That We Are Loaded Down With Old And Stale Stuff - Habits, Customs, Old Attitudes Already Dead And Gone.

I Believe In The Autobiographical Concept Only To The Degree That I Am Able To Put Onto Film All That's Passing Through My Head At The Moment Of Shooting.

A Particular Type Of Film Emerged From World War Two, With The Italian Neorealist School. It Was Perfectly Right For Its Time, Which Was As Exceptional As The Reality Around Us. Our Major Interest Focused On That And On How We Could Relate To It. Later, When The Situation Normalized And Post-war Life Returned To What It Had Been In Peacetime, It Became Important To See The Intimate, Interior Consequences Of All That Had Happened.