Do you know what is so awful about these endless battles over rights? There's no room left for poetry.
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Cardinal Gutierrez, Javier Cámara, imdb.com
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As Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne and adopts the name John Paul III. A sequel series to “The Young Pope.”
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Do you know what is so awful about these endless battles over rights? There's no room left for poetry.
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Cardinal Gutierrez, Javier Cámara, imdb.com
My grief, like all great sorrows, cannot be expressed in words. The dictionary does not contain the adequate words.
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, John Malkovich, imdb.com
Sex has no value, because it lives and dies in the present. But love doesn't. Love is dangerous, because it looks to the future.
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Attanasio's Mother, Lore Stefanek, imdb.com
God saves us, always. God does not deny anyone the grace of salvation.It is the most beautiful thing there is. We love vanity and sin. We love deprivation and wickedness. So we believe that God has abandoned us. That God does not like us. But God does not manage our lives. He does not correct our we…
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Cardinal Gutierrez, Javier Cámara, imdb.com
I am not Christ, nor am I the Messiah. It's more likely that I am the Antichrist.
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Pius XIII / Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com
Like happiness, like intelligence Like God. When I was a boy a man took advantage of me. And as he did so, he would say: 'God does not exist.' And I would answer back, in God's place: Even if He doesn't exist, we desperately need to believe He is there.
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Cardinal Gutierrez, Javier Cámara, imdb.com
It is essential to distinguish between what is physiological and what is pathological in the body of the Church.
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, John Malkovich, imdb.com
You will come to me and you will tell me all this suffering in the world. And I will say to you: they are all hysterias of love. Distortions of our ability to love. The problem, brothers, is love. The question, then, is: how are we to love? This is my way: with tenderness, without passion. Passion i…
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, John Malkovich, imdb.com
Perhaps we cannot fully express our faith but we can express our tenderness.
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Pius XIII / Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com
I have decided not to choose. Not choosing being the only thing at which I truly excel.
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, John Malkovich, imdb.com
No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, John Malkovich, imdb.com
Religion is a narrative story that is told, an incredibly successful story. Seeing that God is the most popular protagonist in history. I would never have been satisfied devoting my life to minor narratives as I found in literature, film, music. Those at best can only be enjoyable pastimes.
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, John Malkovich, imdb.com
Someday we will all come to appreciate the beauty of sacrifice.
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, John Malkovich, imdb.com
Anything that can be upgraded, like an iPhone, ends up in the bin, only to be replaced by a more expensive model. The Bible has endured for a very long time, and its value has changed a little, if at all. Because it can't be upgraded.
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, John Malkovich, imdb.com
Art passes too but a little more slowly because art is more cunning.
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, imdb.com