Quotes of Federico Fellini - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ Every time I start a picture… I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts… and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ Every time I start a picture… I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts… and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ You exist only in what you do. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? ”

- Federico Fellini

“ I would like to live for some time yet, as I am curious how it all is going to end. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ Fate is written in the face. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed? ”

- Federico Fellini

“ A different language is a different vision of life. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ Fate is written in the face. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ A different language is a different vision of life. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity… I can be sure that I am right. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ THe artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ THe artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet... maybe we could understand something. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ A different language is a different vision of life. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ 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. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me. ”

- Federico Fellini
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