Federico Fellini Quotes

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• Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

  Federico Fellini

  Funny, Food, Home Cooking

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

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  Life, Positive, Football

  "Fellini on Fellini". Book by Federico Fellini edited by Anna Keel and Christian Strich and translated by Isabel Quigly, 1976.

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• Nothing is more honest than a dream.

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  Dream, Honest

  Federico Fellini, Bert Cardullo (2006). “Federico Fellini: Interviews”, p.194, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.

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  Movie, Art, Believe

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• You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.

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  Relaxation, Way, Enthusiasm

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

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  Regret, Past, Waste

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• The visionary is the only realist.

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  Hipster, Visionaries, Realist

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• A different language is a different vision of life.

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  Life, Work, Communication

  Federico Fellini, Bert Cardullo (2006). “Federico Fellini: Interviews”, p.180, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

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  "I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon". Book edited by Damian Pettigrew, December 1, 2003.

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• Never trust a woman who doesn’t like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.

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  Bed, Never Trust, Never Trust A Woman

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• 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 wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.

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  Motivational, Mistake, Moving

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• You exist only in what you do.

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  Inspirational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 the screen.

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  Waiting, Darkness, Cinema

  Federico Fellini, Bert Cardullo (2006). “Federico Fellini: Interviews”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

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  Trying, Cures

  Federico Fellini, Charolette Chandler (2001). “I, Fellini”, p.13, Cooper Square Press

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

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  Art, World, Fantasy

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

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  Childhood, Important, Matter

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

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  Poet

  "I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon". Book edited by Damian Pettigrew, December 1, 2003.

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• 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 unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.

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  Art, Memories, Style

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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

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  Real, Lines, Bad Word

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• Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

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  Religious, Real, Men

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

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  Sweet Love, Self, Gains

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

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  Ignorance, Want, Willful Ignorance

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• I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.

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  Change, Time, Want

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

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  Silence, Acting, Crafts

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• Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

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  Dream, Real, Mean

  Rolling Stone, No. 421, 1984.

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