Paolo Sorrentino Quotes

#1. I want to be 82 and doing movies with Paolo Sorrentino where people are like, "This is gold."

Ed Speleers

#2. Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them.

Steve Erickson

#3. I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

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#4. I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.

Natalie Cole

#5. Did you know that wherever you find fool's gold, real gold exists somewhere nearby? This also goes for relationships and friendships. Real gold is found in the heart. For every piece of fake gold that you discard, remember that true gold isn't too far.

Suzy Kassem

#6. I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.

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#7. I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.

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#8. Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.

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#9. It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.

Phil Gramm

#10. I watch a lot of football.

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#11. Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

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#12. Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.

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#13. The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation behind it, the final end result completely goes beyond it. It's not something you're aware of.

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#14. It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right

Dennis Prager

#15. And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

Patricia Hewitt

#16. What I'm interested in is human beings alone.

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#17. Thank you to Italy. That is a crazy country but beautiful.

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#18. Andreotti had style and class; Berlusconi does not

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#19. Morality is something we achieve, while righteousness is something we receive. God makes us right because of Jesus, and our love and obedience to Him is empowered and accomplished through Christ.

Jennie Allen

#20. The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.

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#21. Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child.

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#22. If you can't give the is-ness of a thing give the not-ness of it! The main thing is to hook up, get the wheels turning, sound off. When your brakes jam, try going in reverse. If often works.

Henry Miller

#23. I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because people say things that are all over the place.

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#24. What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.

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#25. I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.

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#26. I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.

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#27. There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

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#28. The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

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#29. There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?

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