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.

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

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards. So the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur, backwards.

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.

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

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

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