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Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (Italian: [fedeˈriːko felˈliːni]; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Known for his distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness, he is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. His films have ranked, in polls such as Cahiers du cinéma and Sight & Sound, as some of the greatest films of all time. Sight & Sound lists his 1963 film 8½ as the 10th-greatest film of all time.

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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.

Alive, Energy, Having, Moment, Sex, Special

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?

Disappeared, Dream, Eye, Group, Movie, People

I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.

Art, Believe, Essential, Explanation, Movie, Rational

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

Art, Fantasies, Fantasy, Medium, Rest, World

Fate is written in the face.

Face, Faces, Fate, Written

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

Cure, Cures, Education, Life, Spent, Trying

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.

Doubt, Draw, Fear, Same, Self, Source

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

Directions, Enthusiasm, Live, Relaxation, Things, Way

Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion and detached from the reality of my unreal environment. I was an instrument in a virtual world that constantly renewed its own meaningless image in a living world that was itself perceived outside of nature. And since the appearance of things was no longer definitive but limitless, this paradisiacal awareness freed me from the reality external to myself. The fire and the rose, as it were, became one.

Definitive, Fire, Paradisiacal, Reality, Rose

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.

Waiting, Darkness, Cinema, Screen, Appear

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.

Busy, Important, Living, Looking, Moments

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Claimed, Excellent, Genius, Place, Thinking

I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.

Allowed, Change, Nonsense, Time, Want, Wrong

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

Atmosphere, Create, Luck, Thinking

We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

Cynical, Drops, Mask, Pretend, Purity And Innocence, Scheming

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

Combination, Food, Funny, Home Cooking, Life, Magic

Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.

Death, Imagination, Imposing, Law, Pain

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

Film, Gambling, Make, Movie, Set, Would Be

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

Explanation, I Can, Right, Spontaneity, Things

Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.

Dark, Mean, Personal, Reality, Unconscious

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