I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!

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

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.

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

I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film.

Fellini and Bunuel changed my life for me, they are my favourites. If it is true that movies are dreams, both of them, Fellini and Bunuel were shooting in a dream way.