Federico Fellini Quotes
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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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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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You exist only in what you do.
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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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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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
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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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I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.
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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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A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
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Fate is written in the face.
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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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If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.
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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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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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I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.
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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.
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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.