This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.
What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, 'This is not the truth, it is a game?'
To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.
I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film.
For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.
Fellini and Bunuel changed my life for me, they are my favourites. If it is true that movies are dreams, both of them, Fellini and Bunuel were shooting in a dream way.
Dante Alighieri was not only a Christian poet or a priest, he was a man. He was a real poet. We can understand that the goal of Divine Comedy is beauty. You don't need also to understand Italian or to know Italian, because when Dante's writing, when we recite Dante out loud, it explodes a cosmos of illumination like to recite music, a symphony.
I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.
The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'.
Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.
Fellini belongs to nature.
