"As a spectator I was very precocious. The first time I went to the theater I was four, four and a half years old, I've already told it lots of times. My mother told me “Let's go to the theater” and took me to see a comedy. I still remember it perfectly, although obviously I don't know if I really remember it or because they told it to me, as happens in childhood memories. I believe that the testimony is a bit fictionalized, but fundamentally reliable. I remember the title of the show, I think it was a comedy by Gilberto Govi, but I'm sure there was a hen, that they were talking about a hen. They took me away before the end because I was shouting: my mother had promised me that the scene would change, On the other hand, during the interval I understood that it wouldn't change because there was a piece of carpet that was sticking out under the curtain and it wasn't moving. So I said: "See, they don't change the scene, because the carpet stays there. And I started shouting, until they took me away because I was making too much noise. That was the first time I went to the theater, then I went back very often, and continued. And I have always known, even as a kid, that I would end up in the theatre. I didn't know how I could do it, whether as an actor or as a director, even if at the time the director was not such a defined figure. I could have been a set designer, costume designer, stagehand, I don't know, but I knew that was my magnet. I've never had the slightest doubt. The same thing happened to me for all the fundamental choices. I have never had a problem with choice, I have never asked myself: "What do I do?". I have never had any doubts about the two or three fundamental decisions - what relationships I will have with people, what my job will be, what my emotional life will be. Of course, in this way you lose a lot, because you lose everything you exclude, but you avoid many conflicts with yourself. I didn't find my identity through the difficulty of choice, but through a determination: "Let's go there, and then we'll see"."
