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Federico Fellini - From the Activity category:
I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Amusement category:
I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Appreciation category:
I did not realise that I was so loved. It can't just be for the films. I must have done something else, but I can't remember what. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Art category:
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Artists category:
What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It's this in-between that I'm calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Artists category:
All artists are equal when they are themselves. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Authority category:
Censorship is advertising paid by the government. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Commerce category:
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Communication category:
Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train... But we must at least take them to the station... to a point of departure. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Creativity category:
A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Critics category:
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the opposite. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Danger category:
If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Doubt category:
Every time I start a picture... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts... and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Dreams category:
Nothing is more honest than a dream. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Editing category:
When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Enthusiasm category:
You have to live spherically in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Experience category:
Experience is what you get while looking for something else. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Fear category:
One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Freedom category:
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Gender category:
In the beginning, I believe man was complete and androgynous - both male and female, or neither, like angels. Then came the division, and Eve was taken from him. So the problem for man is to reunite himself with the other half of his being, to find the woman who is right for him - right be she is simply a projection, a mirror of himself. A man can't become whole or free until he has set woman free... until he makes her his sexual companion, and not a slave of libidinous acts or a saint with a halo. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Genius category:
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Happiness category:
Happiness is simply a temporary condition that proceeds unhappiness. Fortunately for us, it works the other way around as well. But it's all a part of the carnival, isn't it? (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Importance category:
I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Improvisation category:
Making a movie is a mathematical operation. It is like sending a missile to the moon. It isn't improvised. It is too defined to be called improvisational, too mechanical. Art is a scientific operation, so I can say that what we usually call improvisation is in my case just having an ear and eye for things that sometimes occur during the time we are making the picture. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Innocence category:
If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Innocence category:
No matter what happens, keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Language category:
Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Language category:
A different language is a different vision of life. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Life category:
Life is a combination of magic and pasta. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Mediums category:
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Mistakes category:
If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Money category:
I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Passion category:
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Performance category:
The public has lost the habit of movie-going... The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed? (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Poetry category:
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Realism category:
The visionary is the only true realist. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Realism category:
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Religion category:
God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Silence category:
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet... maybe we could understand something. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Style category:
Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Subject category:
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Suffering category:
Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse this law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Technology category:
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Truth category:
Anyone who lives, as I do, in a world of imagination must make an enormous and unnatural effort to be factual in the ordinary sense. I confess I would be a terrible witness in court because of this - and a terrible journalist. I feel compelled to a story the way I see it and this is seldom the way it happened, in all its documentary detail. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Understanding category:
I don't believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art... If you are moved by it, you don't need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Unknowns category:
Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know. (Federico Fellini)
Federico Fellini - From the Work category:
My work has always been the thing that justifies my life. (Federico Fellini)
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