# Federico Fellini's most famous quotes

From the pearl as the oyster's autobiography to cinema as a contest with God: Federico Fellini's most quoted lines, with the interview or book they come from.

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- Apr 8, 2021 · Federico Monti
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## Top 11

1. **All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — L'Atlantico, 1965.
2. **I am autobiographical even when I talk about a sole.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Quoted in The Moviegoer's Companion.
3. **I don't want to demonstrate anything; I want to show.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From the French magazine L'Arc.
4. **Cinema is the most direct way of competing with God.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Quoted in an anthology edited by Armando Massarenti.
5. **Cinema is like an old whore, like the circus and variety shows: it knows how to give many kinds of pleasure.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Quoted in The Moviegoer's Companion.
6. **Cinema does not need the big idea, burning loves or outrage: it imposes only one daily obligation, to do.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Interview with Tullio Kezich, la Repubblica, 1982.
7. **The contrast of someone who deludes himself and charges at windmills is always a source of comedy.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Interview with Gian Luigi Rondi, Il Tempo, 1982.
8. **We keep changing our versions of events so as not to get bored.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From Fellini. Raccontando di me (1996).
9. **The country's greatest social unit is the family, or two families: the regular one and the irregular one.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From Fellini. Raccontando di me (1996).
10. **It was a miracle we didn't grow up complete idiots.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — On his generation, raised under Fascism; quoted by Folco Quilici (2014).
11. **A different language is a different vision of life.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Quoted in Telepiù, June 2012.

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