Alice Rohrwacher

We are in every gesture what we were and what we will be.

— Alice Rohrwacher

The cinema reunites the people.

— Alice Rohrwacher

I've lived a lot with people who speak different languages.

— Alice Rohrwacher

All my movies actually come from a long time ago.

— Alice Rohrwacher

I think of costumes as a character device.

— Alice Rohrwacher

I'm more interested in destiny than psychology.

— Alice Rohrwacher

I want in my films to pose questions, not to offer answers.

— Alice Rohrwacher

When I started making movies I was already a mother.

— Alice Rohrwacher

I make cinema - I'm a very religious person. Making images is a form of faith.

— Alice Rohrwacher

My job is very close to what an archaeologist does: giving meaning to things that happened in the past.

— Alice Rohrwacher

Being able to look with the eyes of a foreigner is maybe the best way to see ourselves.

— Alice Rohrwacher

Lucrecia Martel is a director I admire very much, especially 'La Cienaga.'

— Alice Rohrwacher

Relations between people and communities, between people and landscape, people and food, it's always about politics.

— Alice Rohrwacher

In my career, I've said 'no' many times. I am often offered to direct a film from someone else's screenplay.

— Alice Rohrwacher

The visible is always connected to the invisible. Things go always together like souls inside the bodies.

— Alice Rohrwacher

I always thought that you can escape from a policeman, but you cannot escape from a curse.

— Alice Rohrwacher

Children are nowadays very fluent in telling their own stories; they use social media all the time. However, very few people ask…

— Alice Rohrwacher

I look at people around me from the inside and from the outside at the same time, that's how I work and…

— Alice Rohrwacher

As part of the audience, not as director, for me it's very important to go into a place, with people I don't…

— Alice Rohrwacher

We grew up in the country, without much access to film. The fact that we didn't have any real relationship to movies…

— Alice Rohrwacher

The economic system that represents our civilisation will one day end, too. We'll be inside a museum - the great museum of…

— Alice Rohrwacher

Personally, I am from the 20th century, and I feel a sort of duty being between these two worlds, the 20th and…

— Alice Rohrwacher

The idea of working with the world of the tombaroli, tomb robbers, was something that I have been playing with for a…

— Alice Rohrwacher

We read at school about celestial bodies being up in the heavens and forget that we ourselves are living on a corpo…

— Alice Rohrwacher

In fact, what I love about cinema is the real work itself, which is still a collective effort, all done together. I…

— Alice Rohrwacher

First times are always important, and they stay with us for the rest of our lives. Like entering an unfamiliar room, approaching…

— Alice Rohrwacher

I grew up in a place where it's impossible to plant a courgette without digging up some fragments of an artefact that…

— Alice Rohrwacher

I would say the figure with whom I identify the most is the tightrope walker, but not the one who walks across…

— Alice Rohrwacher

People are now used to films that we consume like fast food. These people have been working hard all day, so they…

— Alice Rohrwacher

Of course, Italy is a country in which the number of female filmmakers is very, very low but this a question that…

— Alice Rohrwacher

My approach is in talking about reality the way I see it, and I try to grasp the magic that I believe…

— Alice Rohrwacher

Television has always been a place of mystery and magic to me. We were not allowed to watch television as kids because…

— Alice Rohrwacher

I'm not a very strategic person, but I'm very curious.

— Alice Rohrwacher

Every movie travels through time and space.

— Alice Rohrwacher

All I can do is create images that encourage freedom of thought, that's the only way the world will get wiser.

— Alice Rohrwacher

Bertolucci's '1900' was a big deal. Another big one in our house was 'The Blue Lagoon.'

— Alice Rohrwacher

I've never been good at making lists, not even a shopping list. I always forget the most important things.

— Alice Rohrwacher

Working on celluloid is beautiful. You think you can control everything, but you can't.

— Alice Rohrwacher

Life itself is a great source of inspiration in terms of how much humanity there is out there.

— Alice Rohrwacher

You make a movie not because you feel different, but because you feel exactly the same as those people who will watch…

— Alice Rohrwacher