Federico Fellini

Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.

When I do things without any explanation but just with spontaneity ... I can be sure that I am right.

You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

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.

An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It__ this in-between that I__ calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one. That is the realm of the artist.

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

I__ 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__e invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me and unkind to other people to repeat myself.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.