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Federico Fellini
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 20
Died: 1993
Died: October 31
Comics Artist
Director
Film Director
Satirist
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A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
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A creator always needs excuses.
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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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The visionary is the only realist.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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All art is autobiographical.
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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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Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
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Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.
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The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.
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You exist only in what you do.
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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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I always direct the same film. I can't distinguish one from the other.
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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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