Dante Alighieri was not only a Christian poet or a priest, he was a man. He was a real poet. We can understand that the goal of Divine Comedy is beauty. You don't need also to understand Italian or to know Italian, because when Dante's writing, when we recite Dante out loud, it explodes a cosmos of illumination like to recite music, a symphony.

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

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

I thank my parents for the greatest gift of all: poverty

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

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

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.