For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

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

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

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.

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

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