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A creator always needs excuses.
— Federico Fellini
Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.
— Federico Fellini
Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
— Federico Fellini
Only the early Fitzgerald was great. Then came an orgy of brutal realism
— Federico Fellini
There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.
— Federico Fellini
Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.
— Federico Fellini
God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
— Federico Fellini
You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.
— Federico Fellini
The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.
— Federico Fellini
I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.
— Vincente Minnelli
When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity ... I can be sure that I am right.
— Federico Fellini
I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
— Ted Demme
In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?
— Alexander Payne
Nothing is more honest than a dream.
— Federico Fellini
Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way.
— Federico Fellini
Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.
— Federico Fellini
A different language is a different vision of life.
— Federico Fellini
Well, Fellini ... there is always Fellini.
— Louis Malle
It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.
— Anita Ekberg
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
— Federico Fellini
Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.
— Federico Fellini
I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.
— Federico Fellini
Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
— Federico Fellini
Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.
— Federico Fellini
We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we're faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.
— Federico Fellini
It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
— Federico Fellini
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
— Federico Fellini
Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
— Federico Fellini
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
— Federico Fellini
I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.
— Federico Fellini
The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.
— Federico Fellini
I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.
— Federico Fellini
You exist only in what you do.
— Federico Fellini
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
— Federico Fellini
Fellini belongs to nature.
— Roberto Benigni
According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.
— Federico Fellini
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
— Federico Fellini
All art is autobiographical.
— Federico Fellini
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
— Federico Fellini
Life is a combination of magic and pasta.
— Federico Fellini
Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.
— Federico Fellini
No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.
— Federico Fellini
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images
— Federico Fellini
It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
— Federico Fellini
Never trust a woman who doesn't like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.
— Federico Fellini
My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!
— Terence Stamp
Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.
— Federico Fellini
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
— Federico Fellini
Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.
— Federico Fellini
The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set
— Federico Fellini
Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.
— Fran Lebowitz
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
— Federico Fellini
Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.
— Ingmar Bergman
The visionary is the only realist.
— Federico Fellini
Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.
— Federico Fellini
I always direct the same film. I can't distinguish one from the other.
— Federico Fellini
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet ... maybe we could understand something.
— Federico Fellini
A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
— Federico Fellini
Fate is written in the face.
— Federico Fellini