133 Quotes by Federico Fellini

  • Author Federico Fellini
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    If I’m a cruel satirist at least I’m not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses.

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  • Author Federico Fellini
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    When the most important times are occurring, we don’t even recognize them or notice. We are just busy living our lives. Only looking back do we know what was a great moment in our lives.

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  • Author Federico Fellini
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    I always direct the same film. I can’t distinguish one from the other.

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    According to the doctors, I’m only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.

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  • Author Federico Fellini
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    I never make moral judgments; I’m not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

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  • Author Federico Fellini
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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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    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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  • Author Federico Fellini
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    My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.

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