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A creator always needs excuses.
Federico Fellini
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Federico Fellini
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 20
Died: 1993
Died: October 31
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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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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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The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.
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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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As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?
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The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.
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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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The visionary is the only realist.
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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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Nothing is more honest than a dream.
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