Roberto Rossellini quotes

Roberto Rossellini quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism”
-- Roberto Rossellini

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“I try to capture reality, nothing else.”
-- Roberto Rossellini

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“Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.”
-- Roberto Rossellini

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“Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit of humility and respect for the facts and for history. What as the meaning of ROME, OPEN CITY? We were emerging from the tragedy of the war. We had all taken part in it, for we were all its victims. I sought only to picture the essence of things. I had absolutely no interest in telling a romanticized tale along the usual lives of film drama. The actual facts were each more dramatic than any screen cliche.”
-- Roberto Rossellini

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“Don't get married to an actress, because they're also actresses in bed.”
-- Roberto Rossellini

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“The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.”
-- Roberto Rossellini

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“The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.”
“There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance Âand aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.”
“But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.”

Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.30, Penguin
“I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.”
“There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.”
“There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.”
“... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.”

Source : Anne Perry (2011). “Callander Square”, p.184, Open Road Media
“It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.”
“I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.”

Source : "Levine's just a singer in a band" by Donna Freydkin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 25, 2012.
“Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 29, 2014

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