It's pointless to ask yourself who the audience of a film are,
cinema has a wide audience,
my films are very popular,
they are watched both by Umberto Eco and by the working class.
If you look for a certain audience, you make a limited cinema.
People think that making popular cinema is kind of a fault,
but that's not true, you do it for the audience.
If popular cinema is good, it is 10 years ahead of the others,
it understands things before,
it is always a bit incorrect, in language and themes,
and it's very complicated.
Sometimes such films are reconsidered,
but that's not important,
you must see the impact of the film in the theatre.
Yokels can be funny after all,
they make a desperate attempt:
they try to improve something but they'll never succeed,
they try to adopt a lifestyle and a culture that don't belong to them
and that they should forget,
they should forget them to be true to themselves,
by trying to mimic them, they become ridiculous.
What's a boring film?
When the author of any film,
a political, romance, comedy, horror film...
when they prevail and want to take you somewhere by the hand,
if you feel that somebody is taking you somewhere,
it becomes boring,
it becomes a sort of a lesson and that's not good in cinema.
And it's boring when you want to explain too much,
that's up to television,
the more cinema just hints without telling you everything,
the better it is.
Otherwise, it becomes boring.
If you want to become a comedy film director,
remember that the less you move the camera, the funnier it is,
if you add camera movements, it's not that fun.
Style is the most important thing at a certain point in your career,
maybe there exists a sort of Vanzina style.
In Los Angeles graveyard there are wonderful graves,
but the most beautiful one is Jack Lemmon's gravestone,
it reads: "Jack Lemmon, in"
I have been "in" many things, I hope that someone will remember them.