Italian Director Quotes

Federico Fellini
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Franco Zeffirelli
Marcello Marchesi

It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is Reality. If I have chosen to be a filmmaker as well as a writer it is because, rather than expressing reality through those symbols that are words, I have preferred the cinema as a means of expression - to express reality through reality...

Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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.

Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.

I know that theatre people often have a very simplistic view of politics and tend to express very black and white patriotic sentiments but perhaps that is because we know the value of illusion, how it can help strengthen the weak, and stimulate the weary.

Franco Zeffirelli
Franco Zeffirelli
For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step towards breaking the chains.

Voltaire was witty because he drank coffee. A conventional liquid stimulant.

Marcello Marchesi
Marcello Marchesi