«"A great talent without courage goes nowhere; a much more modest talent with a lot of courage and determination can go far." This is the phrase that Ornella Vanoni told me at the end of the docufilm "Senza fine" that we took to the Venice Film Festival and in which she was the protagonist. That night she was very tired and angry with me because I made her do something she didn't want to do, which was to jump into a pool dressed as a mermaid. But I think she wanted to compliment me in the end». On style: «I love to simplify, I like rigor, because then there is the character that I have to keep in check. My style is a form of thermodynamics between the inside and the outside. When there is too much energy inside, I am rigorous outside; the style lives by subtraction, it almost disappears».