Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
Federico Felliniwas 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 most influential filmmakers of all time. Some of his films are placed in polls such as in Cahiers du cinéma and Sight & Sound as some of the greatest films of all time, with his 1963 film 8½ being listed as the 10th greatest film of all time by Sight & Sound...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth20 January 1920
CityRimini, Italy
CountryItaly
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.
As I don't consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep down I feel that criticism of my work-which is the most sincere and authentic vision of myself-is unsuitable and immodest, whether it is favorable or unfavorable.
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.
According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.
There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.
As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?
It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.
A creator always needs excuses.
Fate is written in the face.
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.
There is no such thing as a good paparazzo. A good paparazzo, that's a paparazzo who has had his camera broken. In fact, they are bandits, thieves of photography. (Statement after photographs were published showing Jackie Onassis sunbathing nude.)
Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.