It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman. Federico Fellini More Quotes by Federico Fellini More Quotes From Federico Fellini If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses. Federico Fellini hypocrisy judging people I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity. Federico Fellini atmosphere luck thinking The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set Federico Fellini movie-sets dictator stills When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right. Federico Fellini explanation spontaneity i-can Like many people, I have no religion, and I am just sitting in a small boat drifting with the tide. I live in the doubts of my duty.... I think there is dignity in this, just to go on working.... Today we stand naked, defenseless, and more alone than at any time in history. We are waiting for something, perhaps another miracle, perhaps the Martians. Who knows? Federico Fellini waiting people thinking Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations. Federico Fellini expectations attitude positive 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 inspiration believe art Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. Federico Fellini poet 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. Federico Fellini eye law children Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending. Federico Fellini treated happy-endings ifs Experience is what you get while looking for something else. Federico Fellini I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images Federico Fellini cinema light darkness 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? Federico Fellini movie eye dream God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again. Federico Fellini dice play may What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist. Federico Fellini artist country reality A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself. Federico Fellini We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off. Federico Fellini purity-and-innocence mask cynical All art is autobiographical. Federico Fellini art-is artist art The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything. Federico Fellini imagination 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 having sex. Federico Fellini energy special sex
