The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards. So the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur, backwards.

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.

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychiatry and an atheist, theorized that one’s attitude toward one’s father largely shaped one’s attitude toward God.

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

Love is a feeling which you can't change but its change you, Beloved is a person whom you can't replace with anyone but you replace your wishes with his or her wishes

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope?

What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.