Roberto Benigni Quotes

Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.

Terry Gilliam, he's a really interesting and amazing film maker, and when he gets it right, it's really powerful stuff.

My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease.

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.

Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.

My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

Stephen Frears is brilliant and has made movies that inspired me for my whole life.

I was lucky enough to work a little bit with Steven Spielberg.

Kurosawa was truly inventive.

An epic is the canvas Brian DePalma paints on.

I have been a long time fan of Jean-Luc Godard. It's my dream to work with him.

If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different narratives.

The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet."

[Kubrick] was unique in the sense that with each new film he redefined the medium and its possibilities. But he was more than just a technical innovator. Like all visionaries, he spoke the truth. And no matter how comfortable we think we are with the truth, it always comes as a profound shock when we're forced to meet it face-to-face.

I'm the Steven Spielberg of Malibu.

I saw 'Annie Hall' with a group of people working in comedy and television. We were all stunned. Stunned. It was like watching a spaceship land. That something that funny could also be that beautiful.

We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.

You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything.

Take Tom Sachs as an artist. His brain is more brilliant than anything, so of course, anything he puts out over a ten-year period is going to continue to be super relevant. But if you look at some artists, they have one good idea, but unless you know where it's coming from, it's not going to be lasting.

I love David Lynch's style. Someone once thought I was his son, so I must have been doing an alright job at emulating it.

Shaji Kailas is an amazing director.