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Quotes by Italian Authors
"The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters."
"I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention."
"It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews."
"I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time."
"It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment."
"I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself."
"We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance."
"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
"The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."
"The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience."
"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."
"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
"Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow."
"The truth is that men are tired of liberty."
"Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration."
"Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous."
"I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing."
"Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy."
"Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better."
"Reason in man is rather like God in the world."
"It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us."
"Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose."
"True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does."
"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it."
"All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly."
"I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant."
"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love."
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