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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?
Federico Fellini
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Federico Fellini
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 20
Died: 1993
Died: October 31
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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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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
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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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You exist only in what you do.
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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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No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.
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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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Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.
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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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Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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I always direct the same film. I can't distinguish one from the other.
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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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I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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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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A different language is a different vision of life.
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