Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
Federico Felliniwas an Italian film director and screenwriter. Known for his distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness, he is recognized as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. Some of his films are placed in polls such as in Cahiers du cinéma and Sight & Sound as some of the greatest films of all time, with his 1963 film 8½ being listed as the 10th greatest film of all time by Sight & Sound...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth20 January 1920
CityRimini, Italy
CountryItaly
The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.
A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
Fate is written in the face.
Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
A creator always needs excuses.
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.
Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.
All art is autobiographical.
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.
According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.
As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?
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.
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.