Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Federico Fellini (Italian Filmmaker)

Federico Fellini (1920–93) was an Italian film director. He was one of the most celebrated and distinctive filmmakers of his time. Beginning as an exponent of poetic neorealism, he evolved into cinema’s undisputed master of psychological expressionism and surrealist fantasy.

Born in Rimini, on the Adriatic coast of Italy, and educated at Bologna University, Fellini started as a cartoonist, journalist, and scriptwriter, before becoming an assistant film director in 1942. His full directorial début was The White Sheik (1952.) His next film I Vitelloni (1953) established the elements of satire, autobiography, and humanism familiar to many of his movies. La Strada (1954) won an Academy Award (Oscar) for the best foreign film.

Fellini won his second Oscar for Le notti di Cabiria (1957.) His most famous and controversial work, La Dolce Vita (1960; The Sweet Life; Cannes Festival prize winner,) was a sarcastic evocation of contemporary Roman high life. He won two more Oscars for (1963) and Amarcord (1974.) His last film was Voices of the Moon (1990.)

In all, Fellini’s films were nominated for 23 Academy Awards and won eight. He also received a career achievement Oscar in 1993, the Golden Lion career award from the Venice Film Festival in 1985, and dozens of prizes from the world’s most prestigious film festivals.

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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

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: Enthusiasm, Energy, Work, Talents, Abilities

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity … I can be sure that I am right.
Federico Fellini
Topics: Instincts

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

I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.
Federico Fellini
Topics: Luck, Fortune

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: Self-reliance, Anxiety, Fear, Confidence

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

Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
Federico Fellini
Topics: Positive Attitudes, Optimism

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
Federico Fellini
Topics: Autobiography

A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini
Topics: Language

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

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

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

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
Federico Fellini
Topics: Censorship

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Federico Fellini
Topics: Passion, Romance

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