Experience is what you get while looking for something else. Federico Fellini More Quotes by Federico Fellini More Quotes From Federico Fellini 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. Federico Fellini you boss sickness relationship To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free. Federico Fellini laugh picture me people My work has always been the thing that justifies my life. Federico Fellini my-life always work life A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together. Federico Fellini ending good opening together 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 flowers picture good nature 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 i-am painting smoking talking Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers. Federico Fellini face woman man time If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old. Federico Fellini grow never think you In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world... As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream. Federico Fellini i-am me today world 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 what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised. Federico Fellini day me you change 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 rest freedom waiting believe
