Federico Fellini

Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.

— Federico Fellini

A creator always needs excuses.

— Federico Fellini

The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.

— Federico Fellini

I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.

— Federico Fellini

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

— Federico Fellini

All art is autobiographical.

— Federico Fellini

If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.

— Federico Fellini

Fate is written in the face.

— Federico Fellini

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

— Federico Fellini

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

— Federico Fellini

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

— Federico Fellini

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

— Federico Fellini

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

— Federico Fellini

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

— Federico Fellini

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

— Federico Fellini

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.

— Federico Fellini

For people who live in the imagination, there is no lack of subjects. To seek for the exact moment at which inspiration…

— 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

I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants.…

— 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 beauty of life are women, no one loves them as much as me. I adore them all, the ugly, the beautiful,…

— Federico Fellini

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

— Federico Fellini

When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.

— Federico Fellini

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach…

— 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

I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges…

— Federico Fellini

An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this in-between that I’m…

— 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

As I don't consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep…

— Federico Fellini

I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception…

— Federico Fellini

In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious…

— Federico Fellini

What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish.…

— Federico Fellini

A sign of growing old is when interviewers start asking you,What would you do differently if you had your life to live…

— 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

When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, like a bank account…

— Federico Fellini

I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we…

— Federico Fellini

Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid…

— Federico Fellini

A different language is a different vision of life.

— Federico Fellini

Nothing is more honest than a dream.

— Federico Fellini

The visionary is the only realist.

— Federico Fellini