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

  Federico Fellini

  Positive, Attitude, Expectations

  Federico Fellini, Charolette Chandler (2001). “I, Fellini”, p.146, Cooper Square Press

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• Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.

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  Beautiful, Uplifting, Laughter

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• I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

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  Moral, Censorship, Judgment

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• We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

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  Purity And Innocence, Cynical, Mask

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• Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.

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  Taken, Granted, Made

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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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• Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.

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  People, Departure, Duty

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

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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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• What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.

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  Country, Artist, Reality

  "Every Time We Say Goodbye". Sight & Sound (London), June 1991.

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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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• Fate is written in the face.

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  Fate, Faces, Written

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

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  Thinking, Atmosphere, Luck

  Federico Fellini, Charolette Chandler (2001). “I, Fellini”, p.97, Cooper Square Press

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• Don't forget that costumes, like dreams, are symbolic communication. Dreams teach us that a language for everything exists - for every object, every color worn, every clothing detail. Hence, costumes provide an aesthetic objectification that helps to tell the character's story.

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  Dream, Communication, Character

  Federico Fellini, Bert Cardullo (2006). “Federico Fellini: Interviews”, p.164, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.

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  Happy Endings, Treated, Ifs

  Federico Fellini, Bert Cardullo (2006). “Federico Fellini: Interviews”, p.40, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

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  Life Is, Miserable, Existence

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• I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.

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  Art, Perspective, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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

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  Movie, Gambling, Would Be

  The Atlantic, December 1965.

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• It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

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  Faithful, Being Faithful, Easier

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

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• Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

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  Men, Needs, Natural Instinct

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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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• Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.

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  Mean, Dark, Reality

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• Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me.

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  Self, Doubt, Source

  Federico Fellini, Charolette Chandler (2001). “I, Fellini”, p.252, Cooper Square Press

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• If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses.

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  People, Judging, Hypocrisy

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

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• Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion and detached from the reality of my unreal environment. I was an instrument in a virtual world that constantly renewed its own meaningless image in a living world that was itself perceived outside of nature. And since the appearance of things was no longer definitive but limitless, this paradisiacal awareness freed me from the reality external to myself. The fire and the rose, as it were, became one.

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  Reality, Fire, Rose

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

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