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Quotes by Italian Authors
"War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace."
"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person."
"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."
"And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director."
"Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?"
"We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century."
"The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man."
"There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience."
"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."
"It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!"
"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."
"The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice."
"It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion."
"The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences."
"Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?"
"My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength."
"Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models."
"I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion."
"I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."
"The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other."
"Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else."
"Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much."
"Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one."
"Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression."
"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."
"That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell."
"It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power."
"The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company."
"It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity."
"Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way."
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