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

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.

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.

This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.

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'.