The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.

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

I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

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

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

Dante Alighieri has the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. So it's talking about us, it's concerning us. Everything in it conveys sentiment, emotions. He is really the greatest poet ever. So I am really very proud to present the shining pearl of Italian culture around the world.

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