Federico Fellini Quotes

Quisiera decirles, muchachos, que cada cual cuenta sólo aquello que conoce.

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

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

Ognuno ha la faccia che gli compete, non può averne un'altra: e tutte le facce sono sempre giuste, la vita non sbaglia.

Loneliness is a heavy burden, but i'd rather be alone than make compromises.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.

I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, 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.

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.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Only the early Fitzgerald was great. Then came an orgy of brutal realism

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

Il bello sarebbe meno ingannevole e insidioso se cominciasse a venir considerato bello tutto ciò che dà un'emozione, indipendentemente dai canoni stabiliti.

Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.

One doesn't remember one's own life chronologically, the way it happened, what was most important, or even what seemed most important. We are not in control of our memories. One doesn't own one's memories. One is owned by them.

„Понякога се срещахме по ресторантите. Той винаги ядеше много. Забелязах това, защото изпитвам естествен афинитет към хората, които обичат да ядат. Винаги можете да различите онзи, който обича да яде, не по количеството храна, което поглъща, а по густото, с което го прави, понеже има вид на човек, изпитващ истинско удоволствие. Затова отначало забелязах Мастрояни именно поради тази наша ресторантска хармония с него.