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

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I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them. - Luca Guadagnino

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Books are peculiar. When you write one, you also have to find things that make headlines. - 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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I like to work hard. - Luca Toni

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I think a script is great when it starts with the structure and works with the structure without falling into the typical three-act system in which the audience is ahead of the movie. I hate that, but that is like 99% of what I read. - Luca Guadagnino

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I'm a very eclectic person, and I enjoy multiple tastes; I'm like a bee who jumps from flower to flower. Before I die, I have to make a war movie, a Western, and a movie like Mike Nichols, because I love him. - Luca Guadagnino

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

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I'm one of those directors who read reviews, even if they're bad, because I started as a film critic as a cinema student. I indulge in the art of criticism in general. - Luca Guadagnino

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

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