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 Read Quote
Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I’m certain man has covered woman’s face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers. Federico Fellini Read Quote
A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself. Federico Fellini Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. Federico Fellini Read Quote
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 the rest of it. Federico Fellini Read Quote
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together. Federico Fellini Read Quote