Federico Fellini Quotes

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• The visionary is the only realist.
• 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…
• Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.
• All art is autobiographical.
• Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion…
• I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it,…
• 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…
• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.
• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The…
• Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
• Never trust a woman who doesn’t like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.
• I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.
• When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right.
• I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.
• One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to…
• I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.
• A creator always needs excuses.
• The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.
• As I don't consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep down I feel…
• As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

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