You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice

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

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

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

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.

Dante Alighieri has the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. So it's talking about us, it's concerning us. Everything in it conveys sentiment, emotions. He is really the greatest poet ever. So I am really very proud to present the shining pearl of Italian culture around the world.

To laugh or cry is the most beautiful thing in the world