Federico Fellini Quotes

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

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.
Federico Fellini

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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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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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.
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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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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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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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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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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
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You exist only in what you do.
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Biography

Type: Director
Nationality: Italian
Born: January 20, 1920
Died: October 31, 1993

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