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.

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much.

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

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

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

I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!