The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'

There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.

Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.

I don't believe in anti-aging creams. I believe the skin should be clean, should be nourished, but most of all you should eat the right things.

At this moment, everyone is in crisis, not only in Italy but all over Europe. Only in America do they make films that are successful all over the world. In Europe, production is quite poor. We have three or four or five films, which is not enough.