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

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

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

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

I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film.

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