The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards. So the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur, backwards.

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

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

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.