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Italian filmmaker (1920–1993)

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Federico Fellini (20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was a highly esteemed and influential Italian film director. Fellini's films typically combine memory, dreams, and fantasy. Among the best known of his films are La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8½, and Amarcord.

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Alternative Names: Frederico Fellini • Fellas • Federico

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

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

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

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.

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.

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

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

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

A different language is a different vision of life.

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

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.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

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.

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.

Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way.