One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

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As a director, what matters is how you penetrate the soul of the person in front of the camera and let the actor blur the boundaries between the character and the person themselves. In order to achieve that, I try to make people feel at ease, to be mindless of problems and be skinless and give everything to the camera. - 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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Team success basically comes through strikers' goals. - Luca Toni

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I don't want to be a coach because I've seen all the other players who have done that. In just one season, you age five years. - Luca Toni

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Football is like a magic game. - Luca Toni

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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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The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

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