I Have Two Young Girls, 8 And

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.

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.

When I Cook, My Brain Stops Completely.

I Always Say My Age Is Connected With Three Cs. In Here, Cuore, Which Means The Heart. Up Here, Cervello, Which Is The Brain. And, Of Course, Down Here: The Coglioni. I No Feel My Age, I Tell You.

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.