Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral 48% indignation and 50% envy.

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.

I walk the beach to smile at other peopleand their busy children, trying to findanother way to save the world.

Their attention was focused on the strange kid who wore black eyeliner and dressed as if every day was a funeral.

Fear is just like mist. Don’t let it disorient you from living outside God's palm. Acknowledge it, then take any one step in any one direction... and repeat.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!

At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.

The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.

I never base characters on real people - you can get into so much trouble that way!

I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.

I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.