Acting royalty Viola Davis was bestowed with Rome Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award last Saturday. The actress spoke about some of her iconic roles and expressed her opinions on the on-going divisive battle regarding the comic book movies being cinema or not. `I do like a good Marvel movie. I do like a good DC Comics movie,` said Viola Davis, while also saying that Martin Scorsese was entitled to his opinion.

The actress further expounded on her views and talked about why she was enamored by the superhero genre, "Albert Einstein said that imagination is more valuable than knowledge. If I did not have my imagination, I would still be poor Viola living in Central Falls, Rhode Island, who is not considered attractive or whatever. My imagination defined me. I could escape into a world that's infinite, a world that I could create on my own, a world where I could redefine myself. That's where art lives."

Davis also added " Art lives in that world of imagination. It's a playground there. It's God's playground. It's not up to anyone to say what deserves to be there and what doesn't deserve to be there. It's anything that you want to be in that place that can live there. And that is why we have some of the greatest painters, some of the greatest actors, some of the greatest writers, and that's why we live. So I do believe that there's a place for all of it.`

Viola Davis won an Academy Award for Denzel Washington-directed Fences and is known to television audience as the criminal lawyer Annalise Keating in How To Get Away From Murder. She will reprise her role of Amanda Waller in James Gunn's Suicide Squad sequel and will also be seen in George C. Wolfe's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" as Ma Rainey.