I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film.

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

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, 'This is not the truth, it is a game?'

I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.

This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.