Roberto Rossellini Quote

With explicit reference to Francis of Assisi, Rossellini said “I'm always for the 'crazy' people [. . .]. My aspiration, my great dream, is that each person be himself, with all the risks this entails, including the risk of being crazy [. . .] If you're authentically yourself, you have such a load of honesty that it must per force lead to something. From a very humble position you can face everything and you can revise the whole conception of the universe.” Cited in Tag Gallagher's Preface to Roberto Rossellini, My Method: Writings and Interviews, ed. Adriano Aprà, trans. Annapaola Cancogni, NY: Marsillio, 1992, p. xi.