"The real slave, the true slave defends the master, not fights him. Because the slave is not so much the one who has the chain on his foot as the one who is no longer able to imagine freedom."

""Better lick the floor" but what's horrendous in this culture is that "licking the floor" has even become an aspiration, you know? But it's monstrous that the guy has to go to work eight hours a day and he has to be grateful to those who make him lick the floor, you know?"

"So, in the meantime one must not put flowers at the window of the cell of which he is prisoner because otherwise even if one day the door is open he will not want to go out. He must always think, with a perfect conscience: "These people are stealing my life, in exchange for two and a half million a month, all right, while I am a masterpiece whose value is unspeakable.""

"This mechanism of eight hours of work every day has always produced social tensions, neuroses, depressions, illnesses and above all the precise feeling of losing the feeling of life forever."

"The funny side is repressed inside myself somehow, but it was always there. I think it's from my mother's side, she was always funny and making jokes, so I didn't suffer at all! When I get together with Bud, something just clicks and we are funny."

"I wanted the two [lead] roles, of Mimi and Fiore, to be played by Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato. Both were already well-respected actors but had not yet played lead roles in movies. At the beginning, the producers were hesitant and had to take a gamble on these two talents. In the end, everyone was convinced of how good they were, and we formed a beautiful team."

"Devo al film della Wertmuller "Mimì metallurgico ferito nell'onore" il successo di un personaggio che è piaciuto molto all'estero e con il quale sono stato a lungo identificato con grande piacere."

"Pasqualino Settebellezze era un film che non voleva far nessuno, perché parla di un campo di concentramento. È una storia vera. Sono riuscito a convincere Lina [Wertmüller] a farlo e ha avuto quattro candidature all'Oscar."

"Nothing is more anarchic than power. Power does what it wants. (Italian: Nulla è più anarchico del potere, il potere fa praticamente ciò che vuole.)"

"If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief."

"Seriousness is the only quality of people who have no other ones. (Italian: La serietà è la qualità di coloro che non ne hanno altre.)"

"My independence, which is my strength, implies my loneliness, which is weakness. (Italian: La mia indipendenza, che è la mia forza, implica la solitudine, che è la mia debolezza.)"

"Just work, work, work, even at the risk of making mistakes. And if and when you do make mistakes, and you do hurt someone, ask for forgiveness. Asking forgiveness and admitting you've made a mistake is the hardest thing of all. But if someone else does you good, remember it always. Showing gratitude is every bit as complicated."

"Always remember that the only riches we possess are the dreams we have as children. They are the fuel of our lives, the only force that pushes us to keep on going even when things have gone all wrong."

"Trust yourself. Even if you're really, really scared, never let on that you are."

"Every one of us has already experienced thousands of last times without even realizing it. Most of the time, in fact, you never even imagine that what you're experiencing is the last time."

"L'importante è che la morte ci trovi vivi."

"In my opinion, Boschi is a real pig, an animal. With her it would be fun. A Renzi like the "potato", but definitely not a large pig, is one that goes on the traditional. While Grillo is a big one, one who has a lot of fun with the gnocca."

"Apart from the president Berlusconi, who is always the top, I see Brunetta very active, I would like very much to be the protagonist of a porn. I would like to take Brunetta back with the cameras, I see it, he is always pissed off. We always use tall and sometimes dwarf models, he would be fun. Because you don't have to lower it and it becomes cool to take it back. It would be the number one, the number one, also because it comes from the school of Berlusconi. I'm sure it's not complex and doesn't hold back, because it has self-esteem that's important for a porn movie."

"[About the experience in a gay porn movie] There were times, in my life, that it wasn't me who decided, but my body. I recently saw Shame, by Steve McQueen, and that movie represents my path. I, compared to many other actors, I never had problems shooting scenes where maybe my side was stimulated and I always found ridicule, believe me, all that "machismo"."

"Thanks mom, thanks dad for the bird you gave me. (from Lo Zoo 105 )"

"Power is the highest expression of perversion."

"[On Marco Travaglio] I would see him in a porn but in a somewhat alternative genre, not the ones I would do. I don't see him very active on a sexual level, it seems more passive than active. WhileI like Sallusti , he is very animal, he has 100 percent hormones. Like Santanchè."

"[On his heir] My wife constantly tells me to stop looking for him, because he doesn't exist."

"[In response to a producer who had asked him to make a gay porn movie] I'm sorry but I like pussy. (from Lo Zoo 105 )"

"[In answer to the question of whether the penis is too big to scare women] "Rocco you hurt me, don't put it in, make it easy, do it slowly ...", but then they never tell me: "Take it off!""

"[In response to the question of what a woman must do in bed] Allow yourself, without limitation, with your partner."

"When I put the penis in the vulva of my partner, strangely she almost always makes a comparison with a dildo ... my chapel is too big not to enjoy. (from "The Zoo of 105")"

"Hard was what I wanted to do as a kid. I started in 1985 in Paris, when the videocassette was not yet "protagonist"; at the time, hard films were only shown in cinemas and it was therefore very difficult to know the producers of the films as it was "forbidden" to approach this world."

"I remember as a child I read the abandoned porn magazines on the edge of Ortona's country roads, thrown away by truck drivers."

"The hard has become a real industry; he thinks that ten thousand films are produced in the United States and as many in Europe."

"The working rhythms are exhausting, so much so that the average life of an actress is only six months; for an actor, on the other hand, if he can manage himself without being fooled by the initial euphoria and the consequent physical decline, he can be better ..."

"Certainly it is a work that is learned, one must be gifted and not only from the sexual point of view, an element that is not the most important; you have to be naturally taken to sex and then there's a technique to learn, since the scene doesn't last ten minutes and you can't reach orgasm whenever you want."

"In fact, the most difficult thing for a director like me is to find the right people; it is enough to put in a group a man or a woman or a wrong person that everything is compromised."

"Currently, in this phase of much work, it is the lack of men. There is a lot of demand for films but few are really able to stay on a set and perform this profession. Instead, there are so many girls, also because of the short professional life of an actress."

"The real problem in Italy is the wall on the subject: I worked with the French (the numbers one for the hard), the Americans, the Spaniards, the Germans but only the Italians make a thousand problems ..."

"I have always defined myself halfway between an animal and a man, however in full respect of others. I am a pure instinct and I act as such. Thinking of an animal, I love monkeys ..."

"A man, a Walter. (Luciana Littizzetto)"

"Siamo angeli con un'ala soltanto e possiamo volare solo restando abbracciati."

"I got to know Asia Argento ten months ago. Our commonality is the shared pain of being assaulted by Harvey Weinstein."

"@JimmyBennett love you for life my Jimmy. You know I've been testing 9 years old lately but unfortunately ain't nobody like you sonny."

"I’ve often felt visual communicators have superhero-like qualities."

"You can see the existence of these beautiful signed languages which are incredibly visual, and they require space, they require space to grow."

"Italian language is not just sonore. It is also visual."

"Sign Gene's director (Emilio Insolera) met up with Tokyo Journal in Shibuya whilst en route to the NHK studios. The director turns out to be a lively character, one, perhaps unsurprisingly, with a sense for physical and situational humor."

"The greatest merit of Sign Gene is to break the veil that separates the audiences from the mysterious and fascinating world of the deaf, just as it did at the party in the Odeon auditorium, all united from that silent toast, from that speaking animatedly without voice, from that mimic joy in which we – incapable of communicating – were the only outsiders, the unique dis/ables, mutes like fishes in a very capable and alien society. Yes, if wanted to subvert, Insolera made the centerpiece."

"Emilio Insolera’s “Sign Gene” gave the world its first deaf superheroes. But after writing, directing, producing and starring in the film himself, you might argue that Insolera is the one with the superpowers."

"Insolera’s efforts are equal to that of any Marvel star."

"I myself regard the deaf people as superheroes, protectors of the visual language."