Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. Federico Fellini More Quotes by Federico Fellini More Quotes From Federico Fellini The beauty of life are women, no one loves them as much as me. I adore them all, the ugly, the beautiful, the cold, the sexy and especially those that are from cinema material, shadow and light. Federico Fellini sexy light beautiful I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes. Federico Fellini change want time When the most important times are occurring, we don't even recognize them or notice. We are just busy living our lives. Only looking back do we know what was a great moment in our lives. Federico Fellini moments important busy Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me. Federico Fellini source self doubt Don't forget that costumes, like dreams, are symbolic communication. Dreams teach us that a language for everything exists - for every object, every color worn, every clothing detail. Hence, costumes provide an aesthetic objectification that helps to tell the character's story. Federico Fellini communication dream character It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. Federico Fellini work motivational inspirational You exist only in what you do. Federico Fellini inspirational I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician. Federico Fellini censorship judgment moral 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 fire rose reality There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably. Federico Fellini sweet-love gains self Fate is written in the face. Federico Fellini fate written faces Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken. Federico Fellini granted taken made Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected. Federico Fellini existence miserable life-is Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships. Federico Fellini natural-instinct men needs Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair. Federico Fellini laughter uplifting beautiful I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story. Federico Fellini perspective cinema art Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious. Federico Fellini dark mean reality The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. Federico Fellini fantasy world art 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. Federico Fellini vivid unique wise As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette? Federico Fellini silhouettes good-man voice