The Bicycle Thief Quotes

#1. It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.

Ben Affleck

#2. 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

#3. You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for one reason or another, one clicks and one doesn't, but it's out of your control completely.

Woody Allen

#4. We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.

Michel Onfray

#5. 'War and Peas' by Michael Foreman, one of the great British children's illustrators. His watercolours are so lovely you could almost eat them, just as members of the target audience have been trying to do for decades.

Tobias Hill

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

Satyajit Ray

#7. People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Max Beerbohm

#8. A divine power knows the end from the beginning.

H. L. Balcomb

#9. Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

Bret Easton Ellis