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
Topics: Dreams
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
Topics: The Artist
You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special energy comes upon me … It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.
—Federico Fellini
Topics: Work, Talents, Enthusiasm, Abilities, Energy
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
Topics: Hypocrisy
Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
—Federico Fellini
Topics: Optimism, Positive Attitudes
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
—Federico Fellini
Topics: Romance, Passion
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
—Federico Fellini
Topics: Reality
Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.
—Federico Fellini
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
—Federico Fellini
Topics: Autobiography
I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.
—Federico Fellini
Topics: Fortune, Luck
A different language is a different vision of life.
—Federico Fellini
Topics: Language
Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
—Federico Fellini
Topics: 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
When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity … I can be sure that I am right.
—Federico Fellini
Topics: Instincts
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.
—Federico Fellini
Topics: Fear, Anxiety, Self-reliance, Confidence
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