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.
Federico FelliniPeellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.
Federico FelliniNietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
Federico FelliniHype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
Federico FelliniDon't forget that costumes, like dreams, are symbolic communication. Dreams teach us that a language for everything exists - for every object, every color worn, every clothing detail. Hence, costumes provide an aesthetic objectification that helps to tell the character's story.
Federico FelliniA created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
Federico FelliniThe 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?
Federico Fellini