Federico Fellini Quotes

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Federico Fellini

Profession : Director

Birth : January 20, 1920

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 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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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

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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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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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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 do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.

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I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

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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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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.

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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.

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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 always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.

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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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All artists are equal when they are themselves.

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