Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rosselliniwas an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città apertato the movement...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth8 May 1906
CountryItaly
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I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism
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Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.
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Don't get married to an actress, because they're also actresses in bed.
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I try to capture reality, nothing else.
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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.
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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.