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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
Federico Fellini
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Federico Fellini
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 20
Died: 1993
Died: October 31
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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
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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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The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.
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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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You exist only in what you do.
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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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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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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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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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