Fading Quote by Terence Stamp

Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.

— Scott McClanahan

“College stirred in her a certain contempt for virtues like kindness and persistence. She would have appeared to have been a kind and persistent…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby…

— Roger Ebert

Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.

— John Waters

One of my favorite scenes in Fellini is the ecclesiastical fashion show in Roma, and the end of 8 ½, when all the characters…

— Matt Tyrnauer

There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta…

— Natasha Lyonne

With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those movies wore…

— Rian Johnson

When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman.

— Sydney Pollack

I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I loved 'L'Avventura'…

— Mike Nichols

With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting…

— Damian Pettigrew

'La Notte' is my favorite of the Antonioni pictures and my favorite work of the master cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo, who also shot '8…

— Jake Paltrow

If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different narratives.

— Marjane Satrapi

You could not imitate Fellini. His beauty was above anything else, but that intelligence was typically Italian. This helped me to realise that I…

— Takashi Miike

I think about a Richard Avedon photo series, the kind of faces he gets of real people, which I find so captivating. Fellini was…

— Cary Fukunaga

I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I happened to see at a very young age,…

— Henry Selick