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

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'.

Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!

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.

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