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Nothing is sadder than laughter nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.
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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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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A different language is a different vision of life.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
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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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All art is autobiographical.
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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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Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.
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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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Nothing is more honest than a dream.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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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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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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