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

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

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

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.

Fellini and Bunuel changed my life for me, they are my favourites. If it is true that movies are dreams, both of them, Fellini and Bunuel were shooting in a dream way.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.