Mario Monicelli

Mario Monicelli
Mario Monicelliwas a six times-Oscar nominated Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth16 May 1915
CountryItaly
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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.
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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.
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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.