Work is a great thing. This is something my father taught me. He didn't want me to grow up to be somebody's wife.

I am a big fan of[Barak] Obama.I'd like to lie on the ground and have him walk over me.

Always care for the writing part first. Every good film project starts with good writing. If you have a good script, everything else follows. Writing is crucial.

I surely haven't only dealt with film people. As a lawyer, I also fought against evictions, or worked on leases - the unglamorous side of the business.

Today's consumerism has changed things. I think children are much less creative now.

My father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her.

He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.

She [Monica Vitti] was a great actress, but a very difficult person. I am not in contact with her at the moment because she is very sick. Not a generous woman, I have to say. I don't see her much.

I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.

Everything has changed now. The world has changed. It surprises me to be on the forefront. I've lost all dignity! I give interviews! I make movies! I'm amazed at myself.

I've never been in love with Marcello [Mastroianni]. I wasn't even attracted to him physically. I admired him. I followed him and supported him, but nothing ever clicked.

Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.

I learn to trust someone I love..I learn to deal with heartbreak..I learn to forgive him who hurts.I never stop learning in this life.

Our body hears whatever is in our minds and responds.

Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

I love you baby goodnight. There goes my life

I have more fun playing Hannah, because I like to sing and dress up.

Mmm. O positive, my favorite.” “Is it? I thought it was a cabernet sauvignon.” “So it is,” said Adrian, straight-faced. “My mistake.

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.