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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The visionary is the only realist.

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  Hipster, Visionaries, Realist

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Like many people, I have no religion, and I am just sitting in a small boat drifting with the tide. I live in the doubts of my duty.... I think there is dignity in this, just to go on working.... Today we stand naked, defenseless, and more alone than at any time in history. We are waiting for something, perhaps another miracle, perhaps the Martians. Who knows?

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  Thinking, People, Waiting

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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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• The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

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  Dictator, Stills, Movie Sets

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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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• 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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• 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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• For people who live in the imagination, there is no lack of subjects. To seek for the exact moment at which inspiration comes is false. Imagination floods us with suggestions all the time, from all directions.

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  Business, Inspiration, People

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

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  Spontaneity, Explanation, I Can

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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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