Quotes from Federico Fellini

Loneliness is a heavy burden, but i'd rather be alone than make compromises.

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

Nothing is more honest than a dream.

One doesn't remember one's own life chronologically, the way it happened, what was most important, or even what seemed most important. We are not in control of our memories. One doesn't own one's memories. One is owned by them.

Each moment presented may be your last, so fill it up until you vomit

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

Ognuno ha la faccia che gli compete, non può averne un'altra: e tutte le facce sono sempre giuste, la vita non sbaglia.

Il bello sarebbe meno ingannevole e insidioso se cominciasse a venir considerato bello tutto ciò che dà un'emozione, indipendentemente dai canoni stabiliti.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

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

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.

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

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

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

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

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

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.

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.

Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way.

An artist is 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. That is the realm of the artist.

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

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.

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.