Federico Fellini Quotes

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.

أنا لا أتذكر أيام المدرسة جيدًا. لقد اختلطت كلها، فصار العام كأنه يوم، واليوم كأنه تكرارٌ للأيام السابقة كلها. لكن لم تكن حياتي في المدرسة.ففي أثناء الدروس كنت أشعر دائمًا وكأني أفتقد شيئًا أكثر أهمية، شيئًا أروع من أي شيء يُعرف في غرف الصف.

I became burdened…with useless baggage that I now want off my back. I want to uneducate myself of…worthless concepts, so that I may return to a virginal personality…to a rebirth of real intent and of real self. Then I won’t be lost in a collective whole that fits nobody because it’s made to fit everybody. Wherever I go, from the corner of my eye, I see…people moving in groups, like schools of fish… This is one of the things I fear more than anything else. I loathe collectivity. Man’s greatness and nobility consists in standing free of the mass. How he extricates himself from it is his own personal problem and private struggle.

Nothing is more honest than a dream.

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.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

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

„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.

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

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.

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

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

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

We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.