Quotes About Fellini Film

#1. When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was in the middle in huge letters, Fellini's was at the bottom, very tiny. Now the name of Fellini has become very great, mine very little.

Anita Ekberg

#2. Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.

Federico Fellini

#3. I could spend my whole life photographing circuses. They combine everything I'm interested in - they're ironic, poetic, and corny at the same time. There's also something about a circus that's magical, sentimental, and almost tragic, like a Fellini film.

Mary Ellen Mark

#4. Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head.

Camille Paglia

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

Federico Fellini

#6. The films I liked were European films-Fellini, Antonioni, Truffaut.

Tobe Hooper

#7. From the Book of Mormon, we learn how disciples of Christ live in times of war.

Ezra Taft Benson

#8. My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her own. Activists would run a mile from her because they could not deal with what she is.

Arundhati Roy

#9. Oh, no. This has "marriage" written all over it. Travis, read my lips: remember that Fellini film with the prostitute who says that every new sunrise makes her a virgin? It doesn't work that way with me. Even the sun thinks I'm a slut.

Steve Kluger

#10. Certainly for my father, there were great times, good times, not-so-good times. He might be shooting a Fellini film for six months, then not working for two months. I'm used to that dynamic.

Toby Jones

#11. Keep burning the flame of discontent within you until you get the joy of satisfaction.

Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

#12. That's what I always loved about [Federico] Fellini's films: You see the weird joy of the weird filmmaking family and the abstract craziness that goes along with it, and there's something about it that's quite beautiful.

Tim Burton

#13. I always direct the same film. I can't distinguish one from the other.

Federico Fellini

#14. I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.

Melina Marchetta

#15. The first trillionaire can be made in space.

Peter Diamandis

#16. The only thing that makes a name important, and yours, is that it's given to you by someone who loves you

Cassandra Clare

#17. Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

William Shenstone

#18. The cinematic language and interior destiny of each Iranian film-maker is different. The international influences on them vary from Rossellini to Fellini, Akira Kurosawa to Hou Hsiao-hsien, but there is a strong sense of solidarity.

Tariq Ali

#19. I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

Ted Demme

#20. There's not one human being on the planet earth who has never felt, at some point, unaccepted. At some point in our lives, we feel like we're not good enough, but we have to step back and realize that we are.

Jussie Smollett

#21. Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.

P.G. Wodehouse

#22. I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

Iris Chang

#23. If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please.

Tom Scholz

#24. Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

Jacques Monod

#25. No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

Federico Fellini

#26. A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

Federico Fellini

#27. I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Nancy Mitford