Italian - Actor | October 27, 1952 -
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
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Fellini belongs to nature.
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In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.
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My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.
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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.
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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.
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My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.
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Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.
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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.
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I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.
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Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.
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I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!
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