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.

The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.

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

What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, 'This is not the truth, it is a game?'

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

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.