My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

I thank my parents for the greatest gift of all: poverty

You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

Dante Alighieri was not only a Christian poet or a priest, he was a man. He was a real poet. We can understand that the goal of Divine Comedy is beauty. You don't need also to understand Italian or to know Italian, because when Dante's writing, when we recite Dante out loud, it explodes a cosmos of illumination like to recite music, a symphony.