Federico Fellini Quotes

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

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

اذا كنت أعرف شيئاً، فإني أعرف أني لا يمكن أن أكون شخصاً آخر

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.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the opposite.

All art is autobiographical.

Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.

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

Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.

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.

A different language is a different vision of life.

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.

Понякога завиждам на живописците. Когато ме посети Балтус, той ми каза, че ми завиждал, задето правя изкуство, което се движи. Аз пък му завиждах, защото можеше да работи всеки божи ден от живота си. Трябваха ми само бои, платно и малко супа.

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.

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.