Making movies is about control. You need to control your narcissism in the first place, and you need to be disciplined enough to understand the reason for the film. You need to follow the agenda of the film, not a personal agenda or that of the studio. Or, worst of all, of the actors. - Luca Guadagnino

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I am more interested in revolutionary beauty than in the great beauty, to be honest. Italian cinema is now mostly a bureau for tourism. We have given up that revolution of the contemporary. - Luca Guadagnino

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In Florence I won the trophy for top scorer in Serie A in my first season at the club. Luca Toni

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I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll!

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All friends shall taste The wages of their virtue, and all foes The cup of their deserving.

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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

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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 do something significant, and we could also mention who use post-modernism in this way - maybe we shouldn't. - Luca Guadagnino

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Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope. - Pope Francis

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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

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I love to tell stories, but the making is less comfortable. I like to be private, and being in the middle of a film crew with the least amount of privacy is the discomfort of shooting a movie. For me, the editing is the great moment when I can bring back ideas and realize the movie for the last time before I hand it to the audience. - Luca Guadagnino

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