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

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.

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!

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

You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice

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

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.