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

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!

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.

When a storm shows up, always remind yourself a rainbow is hiding behind it.

LSD wanted to tell me something. It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.

People are already p*ssed off at me because I'm athletic and beautiful; to be smart in addition to that... it's like, too much.

Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.'

I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

Try not to annoy your relatives unnecessarily.

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.

What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth.