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.
Roberto BenigniI do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!
Roberto BenigniDante 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.
Roberto BenigniTo be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.
Roberto Benigni