The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'.

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.

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

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody.

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.

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.