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It's pointless to ask yourself
who the audience of a film are,

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cinema has a wide audience,

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my films are very popular,

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they are watched both by Umberto Eco
and by the working class.

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If you look for a certain audience,
you make a limited cinema.

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People think that making popular
cinema is kind of a fault,

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but that's not true,
you do it for the audience.

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If popular cinema is good,
it is 10 years ahead of the others,

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it understands things before,

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it is always a bit incorrect,
in language and themes,

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and it's very complicated.

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Sometimes such films
are reconsidered,

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but that's not important,

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you must see the impact
of the film in the theatre.

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Yokels can be funny after all,

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they make a desperate attempt:

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they try to improve something
but they'll never succeed,

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they try to adopt a lifestyle and
a culture that don't belong to them

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and that they should forget,

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they should forget them
to be true to themselves,

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by trying to mimic them,
they become ridiculous.

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What's a boring film?

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When the author of any film,

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a political, romance,
comedy, horror film...

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when they prevail and want to
take you somewhere by the hand,

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if you feel that somebody
is taking you somewhere,

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it becomes boring,

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it becomes a sort of a lesson
and that's not good in cinema.

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And it's boring when you want
to explain too much,

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that's up to television,

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the more cinema just hints
without telling you everything,

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the better it is.

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Otherwise, it becomes boring.

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If you want to become
a comedy film director,

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remember that the less you move
the camera, the funnier it is,

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if you add camera movements,
it's not that fun.

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Style is the most important thing
at a certain point in your career,

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maybe there exists
a sort of Vanzina style.

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In Los Angeles graveyard
there are wonderful graves,

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but the most beautiful one
is Jack Lemmon's gravestone,

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it reads: "Jack Lemmon, in"

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I have been "in" many things, I hope
that someone will remember them.