Federico Fellini quotes - page 2

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing. (Federico Fellini)
Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.
Federico Fellini
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.
Federico Fellini
We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.
Federico Fellini
Life is a combination of magic and pasta.
Federico Fellini
You exist only in what you do.
Federico Fellini
Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.
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We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we're faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.
Federico Fellini
The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set.
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
Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing. (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 . . . this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one -- which is really the realm of the artist.
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
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.
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The visionary is the only true realist.
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Remember, this a comedy.
Federico Fellini
Art is all about craftsmanship.
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.
Federico Fellini
What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one...
Federico Fellini
Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks.
Federico Fellini
If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. (Federico Fellini)
I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.
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
Cinéma-vérité? I prefer 'cine-mendacity'. A lie is always more interesting than the truth...Fiction may have a greater truth than everyday, obvious reality.
Federico Fellini
I've always written at the top of my lungs and from some secret motives within. I have followed the advice of my good friend Federico Fellini who, when asked about his work, said, "Don't tell me what I'm doing, I don't want to know."
Federico Fellini