"Paolo was the first teacher, cinematographically speaking, not only the teacher in the film Marco Tullio Sperelli, but a teacher of cinematic experience. We were all 14 children there. [...] Paolo was everything except the Fantozzi we expected him to be. [He was] a very serious person, very dutiful, very precise, not very clumsy... serious. Getting to know him in person and realizing that he was a totally different man from his character [...] was strange, especially through the eyes of an 8-year-old child."