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The visionary is the only realist.

Federico Fellini

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Federico Fellini
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 20
Died: 1993
Died: October 31
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Film Director
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You exist only in what you do.
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Don't tell me what I'm doing I don't want to know.
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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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Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.
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According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.
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Nothing is more honest than a dream.
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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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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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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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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
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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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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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All art is autobiographical.
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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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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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