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Federico Fellini
January 20, 1920 - October 31, 1993
Nationality: Italian
Category: Director
Subcategory: Italian Director

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

   

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

   

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

   

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

   

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

   

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

   

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

   

You exist only in what you do.

   

Fate is written in the face.

   

A different language is a different vision of life.

   

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.

   

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

   

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

   

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

   

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

   

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

   

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