Beauty becomes alive and interesting when it’s habited.

I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions. If there's something I believe in, it's a mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during tides, the one that unites nature and beings.

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

An actor works with their soul and their thought

People are very passionate in Italy. If you like something, you like something. If you hate something, you hate something. When you hate something, you are screaming.

If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.