Federico Fellini

Nothing is more honest than a dream.

— Federico Fellini

You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special…

— Federico Fellini

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

— Federico Fellini

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

— Federico Fellini

The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed…

— Federico Fellini

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

— Federico Fellini

Money is everywhere, but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

— Federico Fellini

Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side…

— Federico Fellini

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

— 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…

— Federico Fellini

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts . . . and I have only…

— Federico Fellini

One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena,…

— Federico Fellini

To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a…

— Federico Fellini

“Borges is particularly stimulating to a man who works in the cinema, because the unusual thing about his writing is that it…

— Federico Fellini

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

— Federico Fellini

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

— Federico Fellini

If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.

— Federico Fellini

All artists are equal when they are themselves.

— Federico Fellini

All art is autobiographical.

— Federico Fellini

According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.

— Federico Fellini

Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.

— Federico Fellini

When the most important times are occurring, we don't even recognize them or notice. We are just busy living our lives. Only…

— Federico Fellini

Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must…

— Federico Fellini

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it…

— Federico Fellini

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

— Federico Fellini