My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.
To laugh or cry is the most beautiful thing in the world
My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.
The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'.
I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.
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!