Real religion should be something that liberates men [sic]. But churches don't want free men [sic] who can think for themselves and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

Federico Fellini

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

Federico Fellini

enthusiasm relaxation way

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

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positive football life

I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.

Federico Fellini

movie believe art

The visionary is the only realist.

Federico Fellini

hipster realist visionaries

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.

Federico Fellini

cinema darkness waiting

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

Federico Fellini

home-cooking food funny

A different language is a different vision of life.

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communication work life

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

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waste regret past

Nothing is more honest than a dream.

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honest dream

What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.

Federico Fellini

style memories art

One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.

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mistake motivational moving

Never trust a woman who doesn’t like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.

Federico Fellini

never-trust-a-woman never-trust bed

Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

Federico Fellini

real religious men

Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.

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departure duty people

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

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crafts acting silence

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. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

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real dream mean

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

Federico Fellini

willful-ignorance ignorance want

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

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bad-word lines real

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

Federico Fellini

childhood important matter

I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.

Federico Fellini

cures trying