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

When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.

Fellini belongs to nature.

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

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'.