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When I felt I was dying, these past few days, things were no longer anthropomorphic. The telephone, ...

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When I do things without any explanation but just with spontaneity ... I can be sure that I am righ...

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Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.

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

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

An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical ...

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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

You exist only in what you do.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an e...

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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

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

Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; yea...

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

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My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, functi...

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I’m a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same ...

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Borges is particularly stimulating to a man who works in the cinema, because the unusual thing about...

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No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

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

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

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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to m...

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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

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

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

A different language is a different vision of life.

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Federico Fellini

Film director

Born: 1920-01-20

Died: 1993-10-31

Federico Fellini (20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was a highly esteemed and influential Italian film director. Fellini's films typically combine memory, dreams, and fantasy. Among the best known of his films are La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8½, and Amarcord.More