Quotes by Federico Fellini

“I dont like the idea of understanding a film. I dont 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...”

“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. ”

“When I felt I was dying, these past few days, things were no longer anthropomorphic. The telephone, which looks like a sort of upturned black snake, was merely a telephone. Every thing was just a t...”

“Im a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because Ive invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me...”

“No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.”

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

“An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. Its this in-between that Im calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible w...”

“A different language is a different vision of life.”

“You exist only in what you do.”

“It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.”

“Experience is what you get while looking for something else.”

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

“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 w...”

“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”

“Censorship is advertising paid by the government.”

“Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.”

“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.”

“Borges is particularly stimulating to a man who works in the cinema, because the unusual thing about his writing is that it is like a dream, extraordinarily farsighted in calling up from the uncons...”

“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 ...”

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