The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!

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

Fellini belongs to nature.

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

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

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