The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.