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.

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

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

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

Fellini belongs to nature.

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

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