Mario Monicelli Quotes

Italy, Director
May 16, 1915 – November, 29, 2010.

Mario Monicelli (Italian: [ˈmaːrjo moniˈtʃɛlli]; 16 May 1915 – 29 November 2010) was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana (Comedy Italian style). He was nominated six times for an Oscar.

Also known as Screenwriter

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

Mario Monicelli
- Comedy
- Italian
- Bitter

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
- Age
- Death
- Poverty
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
- People