Vittorio De Sica quotes

Vittorio De Sica quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't. The past teaches us that some films were received badly, while others go sailing on.”
-- Vittorio De Sica

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.”
-- Vittorio De Sica

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“I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.”
-- Vittorio De Sica

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“Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.”
-- Vittorio De Sica

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“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.
“If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.”
“Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.”
“How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."”
“I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.”

Source : "Alvin Martin: 'Scousers and cockneys get on. It's the mickey-taking'". Interview With Jacob Steinberg, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2011.
“I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.”
“Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching.”
“Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.”
“Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.
“Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.”

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