I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

Non sono un pessimista: vedere anche il male è, a mio parere, una forma di ottimismo.

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Interview by Maurice Scherer and Francois Trauffaut, from Cahiers du Cinéma (c. 1954). English: Film Culture, vol. 1, no. 2 (April 1955) p. 12 · French: Alain Bergala (ed.) Roberto Rossellini: Le cinéma révélé (Paris: Cahiers du cinéma, 2006) p. 68 · Italian: Luisa Laura and Morando Morandini (eds.) Il Morandini: dizionario dei film, 2001 (Bologna: Zanichelli, 2000) p. 112

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