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Federico Fellini
Italian
Director
About the author
God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
#Now
#God
#Play
#May
#Pursuit
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
#Film
#Writing
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
#Art
#Autobiography
Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
#Government
#Censorship
#Advertising
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.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
#Old
#Pleasure
#Dogs
#Variety
#Cinema
#Fleas
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
#Film
A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
#Life
#Vision
#Language
Fate is written in the face.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
#Fate
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
#Sense
#Word
#Realism
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,
Italian
Director
#Worth
#Misery
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,
Italian
Director
#Television
#Speech
#Meaning
#Silence
#Chaos
#Confusion
It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
#Work
It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
#Woman
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
#Money
#Poetry
#Poets
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
#Genius
Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
#Experience
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
#World
#Rest
#Artist
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
#Life
#End
#Passion
#Beginning
You exist only in what you do.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
Federico Fellini,
Italian
Director
#Film
#Ending