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.

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.

I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody.

I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

Never settle in any circle that is not fully committed to forever walk in the direction of endless opportunities and possibilities.

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.

belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool.

As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.

Surrendering means non-desiring.

Before anything can be reasoned upon to a conclusion, certain facts, principles, or data, to reason from, must be established, admitted, or denied.