Federico Fellini Quotes
An Italian film director.
(1920 - 1993)
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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 different language is a different vision of life.
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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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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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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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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
[Movies]
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Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts ... and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me.
[Self Reliance]
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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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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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
[Attempt]
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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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I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.
[Work]
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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
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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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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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Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
[Positive]
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