133 Quotes by Federico Fellini

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.

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.

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.

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borghese on a daily basis.

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.

I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.

I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.

You exist only in what you do.