Federico Fellini
Master of surreal, dreamlike cinema
Most quoted
"Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another."
— from Interview
"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."
— from Interview, 1965
"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."
— from Interview
All quotes by Federico Fellini (334)
The only true voyage of discovery is not to go to new places, but to have other eyes.
I am a prisoner of my own imagination.
I have a great need for solitude. I need to be alone to recharge my batteries.
I am not interested in reality; I am interested in the myth of reality.
The artist is a child who has never grown up.
I am a medium for the characters who live inside me.
I have always been fascinated by the grotesque, the monstrous, the absurd.
I am a collector of faces, of gestures, of voices.
I am a poet of the image, not a philosopher of the word.
I am a magician who uses the cinema as his magic wand.
I am a pilgrim in search of the miraculous.
I am a dreamer who has never woken up.
I am a clown who takes his tears seriously.
I am a man who has never lost his childhood.
Contemporaries of Federico Fellini
Other Film & Theaters born within 50 years of Federico Fellini (1920–1993).