The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before them with a fervor that forbids all doubt of its sincerity and that is truly surprising.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It is genius. It is talent. It's the masterpieces of art. It's the food, fashion, everything that makes Italy great in the world.
Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.
Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
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.
The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy.
I love being Italian.
Italians have no sense of the dramatic.
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.