Federico Fellini Quotes

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Federico Fellini

Profession : Director

Birth : January 20, 1920

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

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If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.

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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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A different language is a different vision of life.

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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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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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You exist only in what you do.

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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

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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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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

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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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Fate is written in the face.

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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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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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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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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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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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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

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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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