What came is gone forever every time
To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.
Italy is still very much the same place it was 2,000 years ago. Italians are still the same. . there's a sense of beauty and a sense of dignity and a sense of living life to the full that infects everyone.
There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.
You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.
One of the advantages of series TV is that you can change your mind and plan things as you go.
I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less to a degree, but if you're an actor, light drama is often mistaken for easier drama.
Why? Why not? Why not you? Why not now?
Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.
It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.
I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. . . . Right now, I would love to kill George Bush. I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die, the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.