The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'.

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.

Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.

I dwell on great thoughts.I dwell on positive affirmations.

They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability.

We are all tired of the stress.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

A thick skin is a gift from God.

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship.

No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.