22 Federico Fellini Quotes for You to Enjoy

Federico Fellini

Italian Director

Born: Jan 20, 1920

Died: Oct 31, 1993

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You exist only in what you do. Federico Fellini

You Only Exist

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. Federico Fellini

Relationship You Obey Sickness Changed Other Consider Way Pleasure Give Boss Around Realise Should Body Used Who Function Servant

If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine. Federico Fellini

You Eyes Innocent Everything See Divine

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. Federico Fellini

Dreams You Cinema Light Language Made Every Hop Dream Object About Something Since Like Talking Another Pass Real Years Place Movies Means Uses Image Second

Censorship is advertising paid by the government. Federico Fellini

Government Censorship Advertising Paid

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. Federico Fellini

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself. Federico Fellini

Invented Never True Always Itself Created Ever Thing

When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised. Federico Fellini

Day Me You Change Every Day Will Picture Every Imagination Way Out Put Day-Out Along Know Voyage Always Occur Occurs Surprised End Up Where Want Script Start

My work has always been the thing that justifies my life. Federico Fellini

Life Work My Life Always Been Justifies Thing

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together. Federico Fellini

Good Together Ending Opening Come Make Provide Close Film Good Film

I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things. Federico Fellini

Good Nature Destruction Picture Grass Difficult Fragmentation Other Would Like Talk Make Cover Surrounded Very Confident Human Which Much Produces Pessimism Shower Things Flowers