Luca Guadagnino

I hate the concept of beauty for the sake of it. It is overrated.

— Luca Guadagnino

My secret desire is to be an interior designer. I'd love to make houses for rich clients who can afford to do…

— Luca Guadagnino

I am a Hitchcockian - I still believe that 'Psycho' sets the standard for mother/son relations.

— Luca Guadagnino

When people think fashion is just the surface of things, I disagree very politely.

— Luca Guadagnino

I'm incredibly inspired by the goofy edginess of teenagers and young people.

— Luca Guadagnino

Everything that goes outside the rules of Italian cinema has always been cursed.

— Luca Guadagnino

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

— Luca Guadagnino

Moviemaking is a dirty, tiring affair. The joy comes from the possibility to be free on set and really let loose.

— Luca Guadagnino

I think you should never be forced to be nice as an artist. An artist has to be uncomfortable in a way.…

— Luca Guadagnino

I personally don't think that blood ties should be something that signifies so much more than anything else. I understand perfectly when…

— Luca Guadagnino

I don't much like post-modernism, because post-modernist has become the basket in which every mediocre person can shuffle things and pretend to…

— Luca Guadagnino

I am a film director, and I work with a visual language, with a visual medium. And I try to make virtue…

— Luca Guadagnino

My father is a teacher; my mother was a telecom employee. I come from Palermo; I was raised in Ethiopia. I am…

— Luca Guadagnino

I am more interested in revolutionary beauty than in the great beauty, to be honest. Italian cinema is now mostly a bureau…

— Luca Guadagnino

I'm one of those directors who read reviews, even if they're bad, because I started as a film critic as a cinema…

— Luca Guadagnino

When you have great performers and have set your movie in the right direction, it's a beautiful privilege to let the camera…

— Luca Guadagnino

The concept of muse is alien to me. To speak of a muse implies there is a couple in which one person…

— Luca Guadagnino

As a director, what matters is how you penetrate the soul of the person in front of the camera and let the…

— Luca Guadagnino

I love to tell stories, but the making is less comfortable. I like to be private, and being in the middle of…

— Luca Guadagnino

Making movies is about control. You need to control your narcissism in the first place, and you need to be disciplined enough…

— Luca Guadagnino

If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision…

— Luca Guadagnino

In 1993, my first documentary was about the civil war in Algeria. That was in French and in Arabic. Another short film…

— Luca Guadagnino

I only cast the actors and actresses I fall in love with - truly having an emotion for them, an anticipation and…

— Luca Guadagnino

I have a number of projects that I've been dreaming of making ever since I was a child. But I am also…

— Luca Guadagnino

The concept of making a movie in which the director dictates is kind of exotic - and absolutely not truthful. Directing means…

— Luca Guadagnino

I'm a very eclectic person, and I enjoy multiple tastes; I'm like a bee who jumps from flower to flower. Before I…

— Luca Guadagnino

I think that making a movie is not just making the movie - it is also about having thoughtful ideas and embracing…

— Luca Guadagnino

I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of…

— Luca Guadagnino

I need to have a great deal of control and the ability to share my control with my collaborators and grant them…

— Luca Guadagnino

I'm interested in form, in the shape of things. And in commitment to the degree of never letting go the quest for…

— Luca Guadagnino

I think we shouldn't be shy of thinking that we can interpret text like a movie again, depending on the point of…

— Luca Guadagnino

I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open…

— Luca Guadagnino

I grew up with a concept of cinema as a directorial thing, meaning the director is allowed to sail the ship. Not…

— Luca Guadagnino

The point is that filmmaking is a collaborative effort; it isn't about imposing your vision on other people. It's about the talking,…

— Luca Guadagnino

I think a script is great when it starts with the structure and works with the structure without falling into the typical…

— Luca Guadagnino

You know when they say you need to put people who go well together? I much prefer to put people who fight…

— Luca Guadagnino