When I Cook, My Brain Stops Completely.

I've Been Very Lucky In My Long Life. On Three Continents, In Diverse Cultures, Through Happy Moments, Not-so-happy Moments, And Moments As Marvelous As This One, I've Had The Privilege Of Working With The Cinema's Greatest Masters.

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.

The Pope Dies, You Get Another Pope.

After The War, There Was No Industry. We Lost The War. We Had Our Whole City Destroyed. No Money. No Studio. No Film. No Camera. No Equipment. We Would Shoot In The Street. We Had No Actors. Nothing. But We Wanted To Do Movies. And We Did The Best Movies In The World.

To Me The Only Real Star Of The Movie Is The Writer. And I Work With Writers Very Closely, From Outline To First Draft And On To The Seventh Draft, Whatever It Takes. Then My Job Is To Support The Director To Make The Best Movie We Can. Some Producers Try To Go Past Them, But My Job Is To Support Them.