A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
- Federico Fellini Quote

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
- Federico Fellini Quote

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
- Federico Fellini Quote

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.
- Federico Fellini Quote

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
- Federico Fellini Quote

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
- Federico Fellini Quote

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
- Federico Fellini Quote

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?
- Federico Fellini Quote

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
- Federico Fellini Quote

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
- Federico Fellini Quote

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
- Federico Fellini Quote

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
- Federico Fellini Quote

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
- Federico Fellini Quote

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
- Federico Fellini Quote