Quotes from Luca Guadagnino

My secret desire is to be an interior designer. I'd love to make houses for rich clients who can afford to do things right.

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

I'm incredibly inspired by the goofy edginess of teenagers and young people.

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.

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.

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

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.

I think you should never be forced to be nice as an artist. An artist has to be uncomfortable in a way. Narcissistic and uncomfortable.

When you have great performers and have set your movie in the right direction, it's a beautiful privilege to let the camera watch the action unfold without spoken words.

I am a Hitchcockian - I still believe that 'Psycho' sets the standard for mother/son relations.

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