Federico Fellini > Quotes

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

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

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

“Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.”
― Federico Fellini

“Censorship is advertising paid by the government.”
― Federico Fellini

“My Dears... Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone." - Guido, "8 1/2”
― Federico Fellini

“A different language is a different vision of life.”
― Federico Fellini

“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 all the rest of it.”
― Federico Fellini

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

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

“Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way.”
― Federico Fellini

“There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.”
― Federico Fellini

“Ricordati che è un film comico. ['Remember, this a comedy']”
― Federico Fellini

“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.”
― Federico Fellini

“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.”
― Federico Fellini

“Only the early Fitzgerald was great. Then came an orgy of brutal realism”
― Federico Fellini

“No.. no questo tipo no, non è capace. Questo vuole prendere tutto, arraffare tutto, non sa rinunciare a niente; cambia strada ogni giorno perché ha paura di perdere quella giusta, e sta morendo, come dissanguato.”
― Federico Fellini