“Italian audiences identified with this kind of passing through a pain to reach a truth in yourself. I did not want to make a scandal about something. I wanted to explore the dark places in all of us, to understand how this kind of thing could happen. Every human being has basically a bad side and a good side. It's a contradiction: As adults, we can do the best thing in the world and love our children, or we can have an attraction to young bodies and do a bad thing. If you can see it, you can stop it, and decide to be a human being.”
“It's the same with all women who work. Every woman has too much to do -- that's common in all parts of the world. She was the daughter of a man (piano teacher Friedrich Wieck) full of strength.”
