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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
Federico Fellini
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Federico Fellini
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 20
Died: 1993
Died: October 31
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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.
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As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
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Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.
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I always direct the same film. I can't distinguish one from the other.
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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
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You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.
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Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
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Nothing is more honest than a dream.
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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.
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You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.
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