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 Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

Fellini belongs to nature.

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.

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