Federico Fellini

و لكن البحث عن الحب لا يضمن العثور عليه، كما أن منح الحب لا يضمن تلقيه

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. One should go to the cinema with the innocence of a fetus

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

أنا لا أتذكر أيام المدرسة جيدًا. لقد اختلطت كلها، فصار العام كأنه يوم، واليوم كأنه تكرارٌ للأيام السابقة كلها. لكن لم تكن حياتي في المدرسة.ففي أثناء الدروس كنت أشعر دائمًا وكأني أفتقد شيئًا أكثر أهمية، شيئًا أروع من أي شيء يُعرف في غرف الصف.

اذا كنت أعرف شيئاً، فإني أعرف أني لا يمكن أن أكون شخصاً آخر

Jung acompanha-nos à porta do incognoscível e deixa que vejamos e comprendamos por nós próprios.

I became burdened…with useless baggage that I now want off my back. I want to uneducate myself of…worthless concepts, so that I may return to a virginal personality…to a rebirth of real intent and of real self. Then I won’t be lost in a collective whole that fits nobody because it’s made to fit everybody. Wherever I go, from the corner of my eye, I see…people moving in groups, like schools of fish… This is one of the things I fear more than anything else. I loathe collectivity. Man’s greatness and nobility consists in standing free of the mass. How he extricates himself from it is his own personal problem and private struggle.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Loneliness is a heavy burden, but i'd rather be alone than make compromises.

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.

Fate is written in the face.

Happiness is simply a temporary condition that proceeds unhappiness. Fortunately for us, it works the other way around as well. But it's all a part of the carnival, isn't it?

„Понякога се срещахме по ресторантите. Той винаги ядеше много. Забелязах това, защото изпитвам естествен афинитет към хората, които обичат да ядат. Винаги можете да различите онзи, който обича да яде, не по количеството храна, което поглъща, а по густото, с което го прави, понеже има вид на човек, изпитващ истинско удоволствие. Затова отначало забелязах Мастрояни именно поради тази наша ресторантска хармония с него.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

Borges is particularly stimulating to a man who works in the cinema, because the unusual thing about his writing is that it is like a dream, extraordinarily farsighted in calling up from the unconscious complete images in which the thing itself, and its meaning, coexist - exactly as happens in a film. And, just as happens in dreams, in Borges the incongruous, the absurd, the contradictory, the arcane and the repetitive, although as powerfully imaginative as ever, are at the same time illumined like the careful details of something larger, something unknown, and are the faultless elements of a cruelly perfect, indifferent mosaic. Even the fact that Borges's work is strangely fragmentary makes me think of a broken dreamlike flow; and the heterogeneous quality of his work - stories, essays, poems - I prefer to see not as the union of the multiple threads in a greedy, impatient talent, but as a mysterious sign of unending change.