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Don'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.
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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
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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.
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When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right.
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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.
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One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.
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Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.
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Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.
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The movie business is macabre. Grotesque. It is a combination of a football game and a brothel.
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I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.
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Federico Fellini
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Born:
January 20, 1920
Died:
October 31, 1993
(aged 73)
Bio:
Federico Fellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Known for his distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness, he is recognized as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time.
Known for:
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Amarcord (1973)
La Strada (1954)
Fellini Satyricon (1969)
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