Violante Placido Quotations

Turkey was fantastic, Turkey was like mystical and such a special place. Just unique, something that's really hard to describe, such beauty.

I'm more into kind of real stories, psychological movies.

As an actress I really like exploring and doing new experiences.

Once you got Hollywood doing these kinds of movies and having all the, how you say, the tools to do it, and also to keep on finding new ways of doing it becomes - Hollywood can be avant garde on what concerns action.

My parents never pushed me to be an actress. You can come from a family of actors, and sometimes there have been families that grow you up as an actor, but this wasn't my situation. It's very important to find your own way because it's something you then have to confront yourself.

Each country is strong on some tradition.

I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.

When I'm shooting films, I write and play music when I come home.

When I was really young, I got moonstruck by 'Moonstruck'

Eventually, I think cinematography for every culture is a way to explore different stories, different ways of also delivering a story.