The Pope Dies, You Get Another Pope.

The Audience Wants To Be Attracted Not By The Critics, But By A Great Story. You Must Deliver To The Audience Emotion - And When I Say Emotion, I Mean Suspense, Drama, Love.

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.

If You Lived In A Provincial Town Like Torre Annunziata, Where There Was Nothing To Do In The Evening But Go To The Movies With Your Friends, The Cinema Was A World Of Fantasy. I Had Always Been In Love With It.

I Realized The Exciting Place Was Behind The Camera With The Producer, Director And So On.

When I Cook, My Brain Stops Completely.