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I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.

~Federico Fellini

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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.

~Federico Fellini

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

~Federico Fellini

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

~Federico Fellini

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

~Federico Fellini

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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

~Federico Fellini

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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

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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

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

~Federico Fellini

Topics: Close Come Ending Film Good Good Film Make Opening Provide Together

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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

~Federico Fellini

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Director

Born: January 20th, 1920

Died: October 31st, 1993

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