Federico Fellini Quotes About Movies

Quotes about: Movies

• 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 Fellini

  Movie, Art, Believe

• Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

  Federico Fellini

  Movie, Gambling, Would Be

  The Atlantic, December 1965.

• 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?

  Federico Fellini

  Movie, Dream, Eye

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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