Federico Fellini Quotes
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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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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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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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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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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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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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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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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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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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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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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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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
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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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All artists are equal when they are themselves.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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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. 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.
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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.
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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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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.