For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.

I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.

'Cinema Paradiso' is a fantastic film, I love that.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.