For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.

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.

While I'm fine with you two dating and being happy, please try not to break his heart too much when the time comes.

As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.

Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.

I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.

This is possibly the most shameful situation I've ever gotten myself in in my life, and I've done some pretty dumb things in my life. So to actually make a new No. 1 is spectacularly stupid.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.

I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.