Federico Fellini Quotes
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Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
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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?
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To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses.
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
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I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers.
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In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world... As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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All artists are equal when they are themselves.
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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.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.