Every year I improve. - Luca Toni

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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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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

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By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You thus use every uncomfortable emotion as an opportunity for consciousness growth. Even though you may still be feeling emotional and uptight, you begin to get at the roots of your ups and downs - your brief bits of pleasure and your long periods of unhappiness.

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I have scored a lot of goals for Bayern but only because there is a great team supporting me. - Luca Toni

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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. - Elizabeth Gilbert

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Everything that goes outside the rules of Italian cinema has always been cursed. - 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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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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