Marco Muller Quotations

Venice can become the place for confirming the importance of seven new directors that are now becoming, for everybody, the most important contemporary directors.

With this film we have given the show a surprise present.

The only way to add a market is to build on an existing festival. It is a question of money, and we should not be ashamed. Cinema is, after all, an industry.

We want to make sure the festival gives top visibility to its movies and to the people who made them.

So far, the results have been incredibly positive.

This reflects the importance of Asia and the variety of its cinema.

There are always hitches we can fix, and that is what we need to know from the directors, producers, distributors,

Films that are made in Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo and Bangkok tend to feed off each other and multiply the potential of Asian cinema.

We had to be even more selective than last year.

The Secret History of Italian Cinema. I was accused by a lot of Italian critics of having lost any sense of the institutions by opening the gates of the festival to trash cinema.

It is the only important film almost entirely shot in our city in the past 50 years. There has not been another film that has sung the beauty of Venice in the same way.

I needed Quentin. I knew he would be very loud as a spokesman for Italian B movies.