Federico Fellini Quotes
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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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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
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You exist only in what you do.
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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.
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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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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.
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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
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I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.
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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
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A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
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If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.
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Fate is written in the face.
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
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I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.
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Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can’t teach old fleas new dogs.
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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.
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The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borghese on a daily basis.