Frases de Federico Fellini

“El único realista de verdad es el visionario.”

“Todo arte es autobiográfico; la perla es la autobiografía de la ostra.”

“No me digas lo que estoy haciendo; No quiero saber”

“No voy a demostrar nada, voy a mostrarlo.”

“[Soy] un artesano que no tiene nada que decir, pero sabe cómo decirlo.”

“Chaplin es el Adan del que todos descendemos.”

“No hay final. No hay principio. Es sólo la infinita pasión de la vida.”

“Quisiera decirles, muchachos, que cada cual cuenta sólo aquello que conoce.”

“La censura es publicidad pagada por el gobierno.”

“Tienes que vivir de forma esférica, en muchas direcciones. Nunca pierdas tu entusiasmo infantil, y las cosas vendrán en tu camino.”

“Un buen vino es como un buen filme: dura un instante y te deja en la boca un sabor a gloria; es nuevo en cada sorbo y, como ocurre con las películas, nade y renace en cada saboreador.”

“Nuestros sueños son nuestra única vida real.”

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

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

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

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

“Fate is written in the face.”

“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.”

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

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

“Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.”

“We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time… detached.”

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

“The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set”

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”

“Art is all about craftsmanship.”

“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.”

“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one…”

“Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks.”

“If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do.”

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

“Censorship is advertising paid by the government.”

“Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.”

“I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?”

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

“Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.”

“The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borghese on a daily basis.”

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

“It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.”

“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?”

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