We want to make sure the festival gives top visibility to its movies and to the people who made them.

Security will not be an issue.

So far, the results have been incredibly positive.

There are always hitches we can fix, and that is what we need to know from the directors, producers, distributors.

We had to be even more selective than last year.

With this film we have given the show a surprise present.

It is the only important film almost entirely shot in our city in the past 50 years. There has not been another film that has sung the beauty of Venice in the same way.

The American producers asked us about security.

Hollywood is not just the studio system.