Paolo Sorrentino Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I watch a lot of football.

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

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

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

What I'm interested in is human beings alone.

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

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.

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