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I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.
I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.
I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.
You can't host an Italian film festival without Marcello Mastroianni. It just doesn't feel right.
When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
I was offered to play an Italian part in an Italian film. Although I could not take it up because I did not have the time, the kind of characters being offered to us are changing.
Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.
The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point.