'Umberto Eco' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Eco, Umberto Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Non eravamo solo... Ladri di biciclette - Il neorealismo

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewed
• Play in Full Screen La Maison de la radio

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Girlfriend in a Coma

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Quiproquo

  2011, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Se hai una montagna di neve, tienila all'ombra

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Chwilami zycie bywa znosne...

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Non chiederci la parola

  2008, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Dove la bellezza non si annoia mai

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen La rosa dei nomi

  1987, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Der Name der Rose

  1986, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Die Abtei des Verbrechens: Umberto Ecos 'Der Name der Rose' wird verfilmt

  1986, role: actor , character name: Himself, author of 'Il nome della rosa'
• Play in Full Screen A grande richiesta

  1981, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen La notte

  1961, role: actor , character name: Man at the Party

Famous quotes by Umberto Eco:

"The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, ''I love you madly,'' because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, ''As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.''"

"There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him."

"The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb."

"When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything."

"If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity"

"Translation is the art of failure."

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else"

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

"Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."

"But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

"Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian."

"I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs."

"When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment."

"I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed."

"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."

"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth."

"We like lists because we don't want to die."

"What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible."

"The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own."

Umberto Eco

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