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Federico Fellini
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 20
Died: 1993
Died: October 31
Comics Artist
Director
Film Director
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The visionary is the only realist.
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I always direct the same film. I can't distinguish one from the other.
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Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
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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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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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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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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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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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A creator always needs excuses.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
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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.
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All art is autobiographical.
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The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.
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The beauty of life are women, no one loves them as much as me. I adore them all, the ugly, the beautiful, the cold, the sexy and especially those that are from cinema material, shadow and light.
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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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Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.
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The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.
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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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