Federico Fellini quotes

Federico Fellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter renowned for his distinctive style blending fantasy and baroque imagery. His films had a profound influence on world cinema and are celebrated for their creativity and emotional depth. He remains one of the most iconic and innovative filmmakers in the history of cinema. Here are 50 of his quotes:

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

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A different language is a different vision of life.

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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

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

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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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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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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

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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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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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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

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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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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

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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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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 Borgese on a daily basis.

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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

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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. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed.

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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. Its a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means.

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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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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 all the rest of it.

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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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