I just finished a film a few days ago, and I came home and said I learned so much today. So if I can come home from working on a little film after doing it for 45 years and say, I learned so much today, that shows something about the cinema. Because the cinema is very young. It's only 100 years old.
I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.
I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.
We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.
In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.
My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something...
I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.
I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.