Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma

I just wanted to make a movie that was genuinely disturbing and genuinely upsetting, and that got under people’s skin in the way that films like Salò or Cannibal Holocaust or Irreversible did to me.

I was thinking of Last Tango in Paris, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Empire of the Senses, Salò, Pink Flamingos, Requiem for a Dream.