LUCA GUADAGNINO

PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE

The director of After the Hunt on the benefits of solipsism and the very first cake he ever baked

What or who is the greatest love of your life? Cinema.

What do you dislike most about your appearance? I'm too tall.

What is your idea of perfect happiness? The end of stupidity in others.

What is your greatest extravagance? Collecting art.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Being romantic.

What is your greatest fear?

Human beings in positions of power.

Which word or phrase do you most overuse?Adore.

What is your greatest regret? I have no regrets.

When and where were you happiest? In Palermo at the age of 10, when I made my first pain genoise.

Which historical figure do you most identify with? I wish I could identify with someone, but I am limited in the scope of things to my own perspective.

Which living person do you most admire? Any doctor who gives their science and efforts in theaters of war, not embedded.

What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Coherence.

On what occasion do you lie? I am incapable of lying.

What is your current state of mind?

Despair.

What do you consider your greatest achievement? Making people better.

What is your most treasured possession? My friendships.

Where would you like to live?

Where I live.

What is your favorite occupation?

Doing nothing.

What is your most marked characteristic? Being frenetic.

What do you most value in your friends? Being contradictory.

Who are your favorite writers?

E.M. Forster and Thomas Mann and Klaus Mann and Erika Mann and M. Gessen.

Who is your favorite hero of fiction? The prince in Snow White.

What are your favorite names? Cosima, Giacomo.

What is it that you most dislike?

Coldness in others.

How would you like to die? Without acknowledging it.

If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?

A piece of gold, never to be found by the humans.

What is your motto? I will always change my mind.