Lino Ventura
Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987), known as Lino Ventura, was an Italian-born actor and philanthropist, who lived and worked for most of his life in France. He was considered one of the greatest leading men of French cinema during the 1960s and 1970s, known for his portrayal of tough characters on both sides of the law in crime dramas.
Quotes
[edit]- 'What is cinema today? It's something that's changing [...] and it definitely needs to change, perhaps in relation to new audiences. A new generation is coming up, one that has been educated and raised with computers and a whole new set of standards.
- Le cinéma à l'heure actuelle ce quelque chose c'est quoi c'est cette une mutation [...] et qui doit changer certainement peut-etre per rapportà public neuf qui arrivent il ya une autre generation qui arrive qui elle est éduquée est élevé pami des ordinateurs pami toute une une un canon.
- From the interview of Christian Defaye e Claudette per "Spécial Cinéma,", Les archives de la RTS, 11 February 1985. Video available on Youtube.com.
- A great crime film, which is very difficult to achieve. [...] you can cling to all the clichés, but it's a great crime film that's very difficult to make. Well, we read crime novels, we talk about them, but we read them and there's nothing there, you know what I mean? It's thin, you can't attract people with that kind of thing anymore, you need something massive and compact that carries weight.
- Un grand film policier ce qui est tres difficile. [...] vous pouvez vous accrocher à tous les poncifs, mais un grand film policier trés difficile à faire. Bon, on lit del romans policiers on on en lit parle mais on lit quoi il ya rien conprenez ce que je veux dire. C'est maigre les gens vous ne pouvez plus les attirer avec ce genre de choses il faut quelche chose soit massive compact qui pèse.
- From the interview of Christian Defaye e Claudette per "Spécial Cinéma,", Les archives de la RTS, 11 February 1985. Video available on Youtube.com.
Quotes about
[edit]- Ventura refused to wear make-up: a man does not wear make-up. He turned down a film with Jack Nicholson after the American had the terrible idea of offering him cocaine during lunch. He refused the part of a man who falls in love with a prostitute. He refused to work with Spielberg in Close Encounters of the Third Kind because he did not believe in extraterrestrials. He refused to kiss actresses even if the script required it (and this included Brigitte Bardot and Mireille Darc), out of respect for his wife and children. May Lino Ventura be reborn, an actor who was first and foremost an admirable man.
- q:it:Camillo Langone, Rinasca un Lino Ventura, uomo e attore ammirevole, Ilfoglio, 17 November 2018.
