Fellini, Federico (Federico Fellini)

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

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

-- Federico Fellini

I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.
-- Federico Fellini

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
-- Federico Fellini

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
-- Federico Fellini

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

Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.

-- Federico Fellini

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

If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses.
-- Federico Fellini

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

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.
-- Federico Fellini

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

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
-- Federico Fellini

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
-- Federico Fellini

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

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.
-- Federico Fellini

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one.... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one—which is really the realm of the artist.
-- Federico Fellini

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
-- Federico Fellini

My work is my only relationship to everything.
-- Federico Fellini

You exist only in what you do.
-- Federico Fellini

In the myth of the cinema, Oscar is the supreme prize.
-- Federico Fellini

Don't tell me what I am doing. I don't want to know.
-- Federico Fellini

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