Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam’s level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs.

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.

We must hold primary elections to choose the center-left candidate for mayor of Milan,

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics … but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

I had the great good fortune to be born in a mad village. It was the kind of village that you could not actually invent.

It is not just a question of experience, nor is it a question of age … There are some people who live only 20 years, but many, many people remember them because they knew how...

All forms of power – even based on the consensus of the democratic system – react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn’t born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can’t say it is finished.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could...

Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are...

I am interested, too, in satirical theater, in the grotesque, or even in tragedy at times, but I am mostly comfortable with comedy.