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

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.

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

I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody.

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.

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

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