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All art is autobiographical.

Federico Fellini

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Federico Fellini
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 20
Died: 1993
Died: October 31
Comics Artist
Director
Film Director
Satirist
Screenwriter
Writer
Frederico Fellini
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Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
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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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Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.
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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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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
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Don't tell me what I'm doing I don't want to know.
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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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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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