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Roberto Rossellini
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Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer.
Quotes
Je ne suis pas un pessimiste: c'est une forme d'optimisme, selon moi, de voir aussi le mal.
Non sono un pessimista: vedere anche il male è, a mio parere, una forma di ottimismo.
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
Interview by Maurice Scherer and Francois Trauffaut, from Cahiers du Cinéma (c. 1954). English: Film Culture, vol. 1, no. 2 (April 1955) p. 12 · French: Alain Bergala (ed.) Roberto Rossellini: Le cinéma révélé (Paris: Cahiers du cinéma, 2006) p. 68 · Italian: Luisa Laura and Morando Morandini (eds.) Il Morandini: dizionario dei film, 2001 (Bologna: Zanichelli, 2000) p. 112
External links
Category:Film directors from Italy
Category:Screenwriters from Italy
Category:Film producers from Italy
Category:1906 births
Category:1977 deaths