Federico Fellini Quotes
"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
- Federico Fellini
(Related: Film, Writing)
"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
- Federico Fellini
(Related: Art, Autobiography)
"Censorship is advertising paid by the government."
- Federico Fellini
(Related: Government, Advertising, Censorship)
"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
(Related: Cinema, Dogs, Fleas, Old, Pleasure, Variety)
"Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me."
- Federico Fellini
(Related: Film)
"A different language is a different vision of life."
- Federico Fellini
(Related: Life, Vision, Language)
"Fate is written in the face."
- Federico Fellini
(Related: Fate)
"Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real."
- Federico Fellini
(Related: Realism, Sense, Word)
"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
(Related: Misery, Worth)
"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
(Related: Chaos, Confusion, Meaning, Silence, Speech, Television)
"It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive."
- Federico Fellini
(Related: Work)
"It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman."
- Federico Fellini
(Related: Woman)
"Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets."
- Federico Fellini
(Related: Money, Poetry, Poets)
"Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be."
- Federico Fellini
(Related: Genius)
"Experience is what you get while looking for something else."
- Federico Fellini
(Related: Experience)
"The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world."
- Federico Fellini
(Related: Artist, Rest, World)
"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life."
- Federico Fellini
(Related: Life, Beginning, End, Passion)
"You exist only in what you do."
- Federico Fellini
"A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself."
- Federico Fellini
"A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together."
- Federico Fellini
(Related: Ending, Film)