- The mark which has dominated all my work is the longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen, but augments this love of life.
- [on atheism] If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief. (1966)
- [on Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)] My film shows the sinister connection between consumerism and Nazism.
- I think that consumerism manipulates and violates bodies neither more nor less than Nazism.
- I love life fiercely, even desperately. I believe that this ferocity and this desperation will only lead to my destruction. I love the sun, the grass, the youth. It has become for me a vice more terrible than cocaine. I devour my existence with an insatiable appetite. How will all of this end? I don't know.
- [when asked about to what audiences Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) was destined] It's for everyone. For people like me.
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