If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

— Federico Fellini

I’m a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because I’ve invented the whole tale from the start, and it seems boring to me and unkind to other people to repeat myself.

— Federico Fellini

I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.

— Federico Fellini

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

— Federico Fellini

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

— Federico Fellini

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

— Federico Fellini

My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realize that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.

— Federico Fellini

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

— Federico Fellini

Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.

— Federico Fellini

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. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

— Federico Fellini