Quotes by Federico Fellini

• God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
• No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
• All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
• Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
• Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.
• Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
• A different language is a different vision of life.
• Fate is written in the face.
• Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
• Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
• I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
• It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
• Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
• Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
• Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
• The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
• There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
• You exist only in what you do.
• A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
• Life is a combination of magic and pasta.