If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done. - Luca Guadagnino

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You would have to have been completely crazy to think that when I was in Serie B that I could end up at the World Cup three seasons later. But that is the beauty of football, these things can really happen. - Luca Toni

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My father is a teacher; my mother was a telecom employee. I come from Palermo; I was raised in Ethiopia. I am homosexual. I didn't go to film school. - Luca Guadagnino

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

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Team success basically comes through strikers' goals. - Luca Toni

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I need to have a great deal of control and the ability to share my control with my collaborators and grant them the freedom and the quality of work I think these people deserve. If I don't have those elements, I walk away. - Luca Guadagnino

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I like to live with intensity. - Luca Toni

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The concept of making a movie in which the director dictates is kind of exotic - and absolutely not truthful. Directing means allowing a great deal of collaboration and listening and having the ability to change your mind. Luca Guadagnino

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You know when they say you need to put people who go well together? I much prefer to put people who fight at the table. Then you have some sort of sparkle at the dinner! - Luca Guadagnino

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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 to reality. - Luca Guadagnino

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