"Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. It's this in-between.this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.” “What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. “The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.” “A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.” “Censorship is advertising paid by the government.” I see no line between the imaginary and the real.” “It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.” And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something as in a dream.” “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.
After debuting in the entertainment world as a journalist, and radiophonic screenwriter, in 1941 he collaborated on the screenwrite of the first films of Italian neorealism, including Campo. In 1939, Fellini moved to Rome, ostensibly to attend law school but in fact working for satirical magazine Marc’Aurelio.
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He started to show signs of creativity early on, and while in high school he served as a caricaturist for a local theater, drawing portraits of movie stars. “Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.” He is universally known as an icon of world cinema. Federico Fellini was born in Rimini, Italy, on January 20, 1920. “Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.” Here are some of his most memorable quotes:
From early classics such as La strada (1954) via arthouse sensations such as La dolce vita (1960) and 8½ (1963), his work is an exuberant affirmation of life and art.
A director whose name loomed large over his films, Federico Fellini was one of the great Italian filmmakers in modern cinema.