I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them! Roberto Benigni More Quotes by Roberto Benigni More Quotes From Roberto Benigni My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity. Roberto Benigni fathers-day grateful mother For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die. Roberto Benigni dies The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards. So the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur, backwards. Roberto Benigni corn saws fields What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, 'This is not the truth, it is a game?' Roberto Benigni simple games boys 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 shooting dream way Dante Alighieri has the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. So it's talking about us, it's concerning us. Everything in it conveys sentiment, emotions. He is really the greatest poet ever. So I am really very proud to present the shining pearl of Italian culture around the world. Roberto Benigni italian shining imagination Dante Alighieri was not only a Christian poet or a priest, he was a man. He was a real poet. We can understand that the goal of Divine Comedy is beauty. You don't need also to understand Italian or to know Italian, because when Dante's writing, when we recite Dante out loud, it explodes a cosmos of illumination like to recite music, a symphony. Roberto Benigni real christian writing I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy. Roberto Benigni donald-duck ducks cartoon The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'. Roberto Benigni ben-hur saws firsts Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best. Roberto Benigni has-beens trying sometimes 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 film life-is beautiful Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century. Roberto Benigni stanley century genius To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting. Roberto Benigni acting principles lying This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English. Roberto Benigni oscars used mistake Fellini belongs to nature. Roberto Benigni My previous movie before 'Life Is Beautiful' was the same; they didn't release it so much in United States. Roberto Benigni same life-is-beautiful beautiful life I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity. Roberto Benigni good childhood family mother When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate. Roberto Benigni words best beautiful way When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music, the sound, the meaning. I felt like calling him by phone, like a friend. Roberto Benigni friend myself music beautiful
