Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

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.

Your life must be planned in such a way that you could get to a stage when you can say every day of your life is being converted to a product.

I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything.Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.

One of the hallmarks of great men is that they never make us conscious of their presence, instead they dwelve into our unconscious state and transform into conscious being!

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.

I make a living with a song, and I feel honored to do something I love and believe in.

Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.