I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
I'll miss everything about Palermo. The people always made me feel at home; it will be impossible to forget my experiences there. Palermo made me become a man.
I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
I was born in Messina, Sicily. I stayed there until I was 18 and finished my studies.
My wife would like to live in Spain; I'd like to live in Italy.
The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.
You know, this is really a way of cooking. It's not my way. I'm deeply influenced by the Mediterranean way of being. I've spent a lot of time there. And I've sort of translated it; I've tried to make it available to people in this country to whom it might not be familiar.
A Mediterranean city is really my culture.
I spent five years in Italy, and the Italians have a slightly different lifestyle. Everything is a bit slower and more easygoing. You can feel that when you live there; you become a little more relaxed about typically 'German' things like accuracy and punctuality.
Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!
In my junior year, I saw 'Zorba the Greek' with Anthony Quinn, and I was transported by it. I wanted to live, laugh, travel.
I am very happy at Monaco, and my wife is happy to live here.
I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.
When I think of Italy now, I think of accessories, possessions, bad TV, fake boobs, BMWs.
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that's just what you do, abandoning the car.
You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true.
Since the first minute, I fell in love with Spain - the people, the way of life, the food. I have kept up the late dinners, the siesta, and most of the television I watch is Spanish.
I haven't changed. My family and I live as we did in South Spain. I've had loud music, chickens, birds, and a bull in my backyard.
I think Malta is great for a song. It's got very nice and narrow roads with beaches. So if you personally ask me, I would shoot action there. It can be very exciting since there's water all around and there can be boat chases. Even travel films like 'Before Sunset' can be shot there.
And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.
Barcelona is my life, and I do not plan to leave.
I'm an Italian girl from the south who's very passionate.
I lived in Greece. I had a lot of party experience there.
