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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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