Federico Fellini's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. · I am autobiographical even when I talk about a sole. · I don't want to demonstrate anything; I want to show.. (Updated Apr 8, 2021.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in Italiano). See the original
Top 11
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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
L'Atlantico, 1965.
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2
I am autobiographical even when I talk about a sole.
Quoted in The Moviegoer's Companion.
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3
I don't want to demonstrate anything; I want to show.
From the French magazine L'Arc.
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4
Cinema is the most direct way of competing with God.
Quoted in an anthology edited by Armando Massarenti.
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Cinema is like an old whore, like the circus and variety shows: it knows how to give many kinds of pleasure.
Quoted in The Moviegoer's Companion.
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6
Cinema does not need the big idea, burning loves or outrage: it imposes only one daily obligation, to do.
Interview with Tullio Kezich, la Repubblica, 1982.
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The contrast of someone who deludes himself and charges at windmills is always a source of comedy.
Interview with Gian Luigi Rondi, Il Tempo, 1982.
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8
We keep changing our versions of events so as not to get bored.
From Fellini. Raccontando di me (1996).
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9
The country's greatest social unit is the family, or two families: the regular one and the irregular one.
From Fellini. Raccontando di me (1996).
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10
It was a miracle we didn't grow up complete idiots.
On his generation, raised under Fascism; quoted by Folco Quilici (2014).
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11
A different language is a different vision of life.
Quoted in Telepiù, June 2012.
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