“The key of Italy is family because everything passes through the family. Every choice that you make in your life, you have to ask the family. And this is true and the cinema reflects this.”

“I think that comedy doesn’t destroy the tragic. In Italy, we do comedy starting from tragic topics.”

In honesty I didn’t really care about the audience, because if you think of the audience before the movie you cannot have any sincerity and you cannot predict what the audience will like. The only audience you can reference is yourself.

Luchetti’s father was a writer and his grandfather was a painter, so there is obviously an artistic gene in the family.  He studied literature and art at university, following this with study at the Gaumont Film School where he worked on a collective film Juke Box.  His debut in film in 1984 was as an actor in Bianca, directed by Nanni Moretti, but in 1988 he directed his first film It’s Happening Tomorrow, which screened at Cannes to some acclaim.  Since then he has directed several films, all of which have garnered various awards.  He is married with one son.