30 Quotes by Paolo Sorrentino

Uno no construye la vida arrellanado en un sofá y quejándose. Quien corre y grita, tiene las de ganar.

Perder el tiempo, ociosamente, para descubrir poco a poco todo lo que la vida tiene para ofrecernos: la amistad, el sexo, el dolor, la inseguridad, la vorágine, el enamoramiento, el resentimiento, la envidia de aquel que se ha quedado solo porque aquellos dos se están besando.

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

Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.

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

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.

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.