I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film.

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

When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

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

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

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

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

Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody.

You really are a ray of sunshine, aren’t you?

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

There is very little sense that anybody really knows what works or why. But that's not a shock. And I don't think market research would solve that.

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

Black is a colour of power and strength.

Healthy body, healthy mind and healthy spirit. A Votre Sante.

To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.