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The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.
Federico Fellini
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Federico Fellini
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 20
Died: 1993
Died: October 31
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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 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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Nothing is more honest than a dream.
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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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A different language is a different vision of life.
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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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You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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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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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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A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
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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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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.
Federico Fellini
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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Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
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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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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
Federico Fellini
A creator always needs excuses.
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