The public has lost the habit ...

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all — that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open — has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?
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 Federico Fellini

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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. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.
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 Federico Fellini
I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.
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 Federico Fellini
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
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 Federico Fellini
The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set
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 Federico Fellini
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.
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 Federico Fellini