Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.

Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

...[Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.

My love to pray is my love to communicate with my Creator.

I'm having the time of my life and I'm glad people are enjoy it.

I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

Bring it on, Tinker Bell.

My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.

I'm gonna catch you with your head down tonight. I'm gonna take it off.