Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Mario Monicelli

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian director Mario Monicelli.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Mario Alberto Ettore Monicelli was an Italian film director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana. He was nominated six times for an Oscar, and was awarded the Golden Lion for his career.

Italian - Director | May 16, 1915 - November 29, 2010

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The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

Mario Monicelli

A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.

Mario Monicelli

Death doesn't frighten me, it bothers me. It bothers me for example that someone can be there tomorrow but me I am no longer there. What bothers me is no longer being alive, not being dead.

Mario Monicelli

I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.

Mario Monicelli