Federico Fellini Quote

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
FEDERICO FELLINI

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
FEDERICO FELLINI

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

When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to m...
FEDERICO FELLINI

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
FEDERICO FELLINI

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
FEDERICO FELLINI

All artists are equal when they are themselves.
FEDERICO FELLINI

I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.
FEDERICO FELLINI

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

If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
FEDERICO FELLINI

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
FEDERICO FELLINI

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
FEDERICO FELLINI

Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; yea...
FEDERICO FELLINI

It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
FEDERICO FELLINI

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
FEDERICO FELLINI

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
FEDERICO FELLINI

A different language is a different vision of life.
FEDERICO FELLINI

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkne...
FEDERICO FELLINI

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besid...
FEDERICO FELLINI

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphy...
FEDERICO FELLINI

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and t...
FEDERICO FELLINI

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the ...
FEDERICO FELLINI

My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, functi...
FEDERICO FELLINI

If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.
FEDERICO FELLINI

You exist only in what you do.
FEDERICO FELLINI

I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 as...
FEDERICO FELLINI

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth...
FEDERICO FELLINI

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
FEDERICO FELLINI

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusi...
FEDERICO FELLINI

In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So cl...
FEDERICO FELLINI

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.
FEDERICO FELLINI

I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding...
FEDERICO FELLINI

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

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
FEDERICO FELLINI

When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, li...
FEDERICO FELLINI

I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration ...
FEDERICO FELLINI

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
FEDERICO FELLINI

I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, wit...
FEDERICO FELLINI

Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the ...
FEDERICO FELLINI

It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
FEDERICO FELLINI

A sign of growing old is when interviewers start asking you,“What would you do differently if you ...
FEDERICO FELLINI

My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
FEDERICO FELLINI

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the h...
FEDERICO FELLINI

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the...
FEDERICO FELLINI

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphy...
FEDERICO FELLINI

The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This inc...
FEDERICO FELLINI

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for...
FEDERICO FELLINI

Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with ...
FEDERICO FELLINI

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography
FEDERICO FELLINI

Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, t...
FEDERICO FELLINI

Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; yea...
FEDERICO FELLINI

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the h...
FEDERICO FELLINI

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, ...
FEDERICO FELLINI

Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; yea...
FEDERICO FELLINI

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
FREDERICO FELLINI

As we approach the new millennium, we see how much remains to be done to give our young and future g...
FEDERICO MAYOR

Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
FEDERICO MAYOR

If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers o...
FEDERICO CHINI

This was just an average meet. There was nothing sensational. Hopefully, it'll be a wake-up call and...
DAVE FEDERICO

Our outfield could be really good.
MIKE FEDERICO

El amor más hermoso es un cálculo equivocado, una excepción que confirma la regla, aquello para l...
FEDERICO MOCCIA

- Soy feliz. Jamás me he sentido tan bien, ¿y tu?
- ¿Yo? - Step la abraza con fuerza-. Estoy...
FEDERICO MOCCIA

Faith does his job of giving hope, until death, when you wish everything you believed in was the tru...
FEDERICO FRONZOLI

Diversity is not what divides us. It's what defines us...
FEDERICO GONZALEZ

There were no computers retrieved, but there were indications of equipment taken out, there were com...
FEDERICO OPINION

We have no law on hacking. We are consulting some technical experts to see how it would fit into wir...
FEDERICO OPINION

It does sound very Mexican. It will probably play well here.
FEDERICO ESTEVEZ

Average wages in Mexico will eventually rise enough to hold people here. It will take time. But huge...
FEDERICO ESTEVEZ

imagination is the language of who has the power to make a change
FEDERICO MINIERI

Power is a weapon used by who has already killed themselves.
FEDERICO MINIERI

She worked really hard indoors, but the rules in indoor only allow three entries per event. It never...
DAVE FEDERICO

Evidently, from what the police were saying... he was doing 70 mph when the cops were chasing him.
CHARLES FEDERICO

That was at the State Meet and we just told her to do what she had to do to win the race. She had ru...
DAVE FEDERICO

It was the leadoff leg so she didn't get a running start, so it's pretty accurate.
DAVE FEDERICO

You're only allowed to do two events each, so we targeted this race and the 4x400. We felt we could ...
DAVE FEDERICO

Emily has looked very good for us early in the season.
DAVE FEDERICO

It's been a great winter so far. We've been outside on the track doing most of our training. Obvious...
DAVE FEDERICO

We did better than we thought. It's early in the season, so everyone's happy with the results. These...
DAVE FEDERICO

I'm not going to sit here and pout and say 'I wish we won (the championship)'. It was a great honor ...
RACHELLE FEDERICO

The real woman does not want to be equal but different.
FEDERICO MANGAHAS

love what makes you different
FEDERICO MINIERI

As some said, they might have been just playing around, but we will know that because they will be s...
FEDERICO OPINION

Sam took it out first as she normally does. The other girl caught her with about 50 meters to go and...
DAVE FEDERICO

I don't know how many customers have come by and asked how that little man is doing. We have had tha...
CHARLES FEDERICO

It's not our best time of the year, but it's pretty close. We ran a 4:02.85 at Yale. That was a more...
DAVE FEDERICO

Samantha's versatility is second to none. We're very lucky to have her on our team.
DAVE FEDERICO

I encourage students to really research each of the schools. The bottom line is that they really nee...
GERI FEDERICO

In our school, every single student will receive all the credits necessary to meet diploma requireme...
GERI FEDERICO

That will be something we will do a lot of is listening to students.
GERI FEDERICO

Our goal is that all of our students will complete an internship. We know and understand that it may...
GERI FEDERICO

Our overall theme is to really support individuals, and I'm not just talking about students. Educato...
GERI FEDERICO

what a strong personality! [about Elordi]
FEDERICO POZZOLO

The crater could only be done by a powerful explosive.
FEDERICO OPINION

Oh, yes! That is tonight.
FEDERICO MAZZOLINI

The last election was about the grand struggle for democracy and this motivated a lot of citizens to...
FEDERICO ESTEVEZ

Fox didn't meet all the expectations that were inordinately inflated by his team, by him, and by opi...
FEDERICO ESTEVEZ

It's over. I'd like to say he has a one-in-10 chance of winning but it really is one-in-a-100 now, a...
FEDERICO ESTEVEZ

The level of violence is too public. This isn't just about squaring accounts. This is about gang war...
FEDERICO ESTEVEZ

This is really Fox's last chance to make his pitch, speak his piece. And after this he'll just be th...
FEDERICO ESTEVEZ

They've really been thrown for a loop by the current situation. They have a front-running candidate ...
FEDERICO ESTEVEZ

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several mi...
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. ...
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize ...
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cov...
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

I'm hurt, hurt and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening, the fountains never ceasi...
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furiou...
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breat...
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furiou...
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious...
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

…I went away from your side,
in love without knowing it.
Now I don’t know how your eye...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several mi...
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

After returning from Cambridge in 1936, I did some work with J. M. Mioz on the oxidation of fatty ac...
LUIS FEDERICO LELOIR

At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at fiv...
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA

El remanso de aire
bajo la rama del eco.

El remanso del agua
bajo fronda de luc...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA

But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discov...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize ...
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collect...
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover t...
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, an...
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of ...
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.
LUIS FEDERICO LELOIR

To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA

At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA

We managed to prepare a cell-free system which was active when suitably supplemented, and this was a...
LUIS FEDERICO LELOIR

It was the most important Vivaldi discovery of the last 70 years. Every year, new manuscripts are fo...
FEDERICO MARIA SARDELLI

This is a triumph of justice!
FEDERICO MARIA SARDELLI

Si yo tuviera hambre, no pediría un pan. Pediría medio pan y un libro.
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA

The little boy was looking for his voice.
(The king of the crickets had it.)
In a drop of ...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA

I can’t listen to you. I can’t listen to your voice. It’s as though I’d drunk a bottle of an...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA

The night below. We two. Crystal of pain.
You wept over great distances.
My ache was a clu...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA

We're all curious about what might hurt us.
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA

I am the immense shadow of my tears
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA

I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth <...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA

I've often lost myself,
in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA

To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.

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To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.

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