"My next feature, Partenze, was an evocative, crystalline study of a 15-year-old girl who, through her love of Mozart and Brahms, grows to become a sultry, exotic concertplayer. Her life is sad, but she braves it all to give her greatest performance on her eighteenth birthday. It was touching, wonderful. The critics raved. The public adored me.
"Carta riciclata examined the life of a sixteen year old who lives a barren, emotionless existence. Her parents ignore her. She is sad. She turns to the arms of a seventeen year old ballerina. Together, they find magic in ways that are exotic yet tender. Sultry yet innocent. At the end the ballerina dies, crushed by a gigantic Chinese urn. It is sad. But my heroine, having learned that life is for the living, goes on and takes her friend's place in an impromptu performance of The Dying Swan. This film has been called 'brilliant' by the critics. The public raved.
"After that, they begin to rush by in a wondrous, exotic blur -- Limite de credito, Aggiornato, Lavaro a orario ridotto: all sensitive, delicate studies of the hopes and aspirations of the young as they emerge from bewildering childhood to the sometimes harsh, sometimes confusing world of womanhood. They are my chidren. I love them all.
"My latest will premier in Hollywood in time for the Oscars. Indebitato. My star is a fourteen year old I rescued from the horrors of Bosnia and brought to my home where, like a delicate exotic flower, she has blossomed into the essence of womanhood. And my cameras have followed her on this unique yet universal journey. It is my first time at a documentary, and I am very pleased.
"I see it as an expansion of my horizons, pushing me into new areas of discovery. I look forward to my next project: a sensitive, serious drama about a sixteen year old streetboy, as he grows into a difficult yet wondrous manhood. Creatively, it is a major risk for me. I hope the critics will be kind."
