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

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.

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.

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

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.

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