"Je ne suis pas un pessimiste: c'est une forme d'optimisme, selon moi, de voir aussi le mal."

"Non sono un pessimista: vedere anche il male è, a mio parere, una forma di ottimismo."

"(About Achille Campanile) He was my idol. But he was just surreal. He couldn't do social satire because the regime wo…"

"At my age, you're afraid of discoveries. A discovery would force you to change your frame of reference."

"He wasn't a very likeable character, Paolo... he was cynical... just like some of his characters. (Orchidea De Santis)"

"When there are two Italians, they confide secrets to each other; three make philosophical observations; four play car…"

"[If you had the extraordinary—and also terrible—power to rule a country for a moment, to do whatever you wanted, what…"

"There were two very beautiful blond children, the children of rich people: all the children of rich people are blond …"