Dante Alighieri has the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. So it's talking about us, it's concerning us. Everything in it conveys sentiment, emotions. He is really the greatest poet ever. So I am really very proud to present the shining pearl of Italian culture around the world.

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

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

It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.

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

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.