Sica Quotes

#1. I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.

Clint Eastwood

#2. Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.

Beeban Kidron

#3. The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, 'Miracle in Milan.' It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration.

Beeban Kidron

#4. Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.

Satyajit Ray

#5. I wonder now ... were my tears for Alex and Al and all the others who had gone and who were yet to go? Or was I weeping for myself ... and those who would remain?

Farley Mowat

#6. In all of history, we have found just one cure for error - a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

David Brin

#7. Love is a kind of possession. It's a poison.

Lauren Oliver

#8. I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

Saoirse Ronan

#9. Friends are the artists who paint happy lips on your face.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. Here she is," her mum said, cooing at the baby, "my special girl."
"Oh, cheers," Valkyrie said, rolling her eyes.

Derek Landy

#11. Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.

Karen Armstrong

#12. There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't. The past teaches us that some films were received badly, while others go sailing on.

Vittorio De Sica

#13. The overwhelming need to consume her in every way.

K. Webster

#14. Of all things love is the most potent.

Maria Montessori

#15. The worm does not his work more surely on the dead body, than does this slow creeping fire upon the living frame.

Charles Dickens

#16. Don't let people interfere with you. Boot 'em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.

Ray Bradbury

#17. Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Vittorio De Sica

#18. I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.

Vittorio De Sica

#19. Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.

Vittorio De Sica