Federico Fellini Quotes

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

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

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

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

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

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.

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

Chaque langue voit le monde d’une manière différente.

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

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

„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.

„Мисля, че животът крие повече от онова, което знаем или някога ще узнаем. Религиозното, мистичното, психичното, чудодейното; съдбата, предназначението, съвпадението. Страната на име Неизвестното. Зная, че понякога ми се смеят и подиграват за готовността да възприемам всичко от А до Я, от астрологията до ясновидството, от Юнг до спиритическите сеанси и кристалните топки, но обещанието за чудеса ме омайва. Подигравачите и мърморковците не ме спират. Нека си живеят, вкоренени в земното, онези, които считат, че всичко трябва да има прагматично научно обяснение. Не желая да познавам хора, които не могат да кажат; „Представяш ли си!“ в отговор на някакво вдъхновяващо благоговение, необяснено явление. Мисленето наужким е най-важният вид мислене. Човек се развива натам, накъдето може да се развие, без да взема предвид вече известното.

When I felt I was dying, these past few days, things were no longer anthropomorphic. The telephone, which looks like a sort of upturned black snake, was merely a telephone. Every thing was just a thing. The couch, which looked like a big square face drawn by Rubens, with buttons on the cover like wicked little eyes, was just a couch, rather shabby but nothing more. At such a time things don’t matter to you; you don’t bathe everything in your presence, like an amoeba. Things become innocent because you draw away from them; experience becomes virginal, as it was for the first man when he saw the valleys and the plains. You feel you are set in a tidy world: that is a door and it behaves like a door, that is white and behaves like white. What heaven: the symbolism of meanings loses all meaning. You see objects which are comforting because they are quite free. But suddenly you are flung into a new form of suffering because, when you come to miss the meaning of, say, a stool, reality suddenly becomes terrifying. Everything becomes monstrous, unattainable.

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