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

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

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

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.

There is nothing more beautiful in the world, enough to lose one's head. A sunset with a long nose, a starry sky that lies, a river searching for its father, a beautiful blue forest. It makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it's very mean, generous, magical, universal, a picture of freedom, of unrestrained desire to live, of pain and joy - a joy so powerful and sweet that it restores the souls in every spot on earth. The story of Pinocchio - nothing more beautiful in the world.