Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
“If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.”
“As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.”