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.

I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool.

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.

...just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't mean that I'm not a witch. I'm a witch all the time and not just on Halloween.

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.

Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived.

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

The process of the body changing and making a whole human fascinates me.

Every cliche is true, right? That's why they're cliches.

Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.