Author: Roberto Benigni

Quotes

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

- Roberto Benigni

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

- Roberto Benigni

Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!

Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!

- Roberto Benigni

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.

- Roberto Benigni

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

- Roberto Benigni

I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film.

I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film.

- Roberto Benigni

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

- Roberto Benigni

Fellini and Bunuel changed my life for me, they are my favourites. If it is true that movies are dreams, both of them, Fellini and Bunuel were shooting in a dream way.

Fellini and Bunuel changed my life for me, they are my favourites. If it is true that movies are dreams, both of them, Fellini and Bunuel were shooting in a dream way.

- Roberto Benigni

My previous movie before 'Life Is Beautiful' was the same; they didn't release it so much in United States.

My previous movie before 'Life Is Beautiful' was the same; they didn't release it so much in United States.

- Roberto Benigni

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