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The women who both attracted and frightened him and an Italy dominated in his youth by Mussolini and Pope Pius XII – inspired the dreams that Fellini started recording in notebooks in the 1960s. Life and dreams were raw material for his films. His native Rimini and characters like Saraghina (the devil herself said the priests who ran his school) -… IMDB Wikipedia $10 million 1920 1920-1-20 1993-10-31 6′ (1.83 m) 8½ (1963) Amarcord (1973) Aquarius Assistant director Director Emilia-Romagna Federico Fellini Federico Fellini Net Worth Giulietta Masina Italy January 20 La Dolce Vita (1960) Rimini The Nights of Cabiria (1957) Writer

Federico Fellini Quick Info

Federico Fellini Trademarks

1. Includes dream like imagery and nostalgia
2. Score by Nino Rota
3. Frequently cast Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina
4. Bizarre, abstract plots peppered with risque humor

Federico Fellini Quotes

• Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train… But we must at least take them to the station… to a point of departure.
• Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
• The visionary is the only true realist.
• 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.
• With the death of Sergei Parajanov cinema lost one of its magicians. (July, 1990)
• No doubt there’s a connection between pathology and creation, we can’t deny it. Yet I view with pleasure the work of film professionals I love, such as Bunuel, Kurosawa, Kubrick, Bergman.
• Anyone who lives, as I do, in a world of imagination must make an enormous and unnatural effect to be factual in the ordinary sense. I confess I would be a terrible witness in court because of this–and a terrible journalist. I feel compelled to a story the way I see it and this is seldom the way it happened, in all its documentary detail.
• I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.
• We don’t really know who woman is. She remains in that precise place within man where darkness begins. Talking about women means talking about the darkest part of ourselves, the undeveloped part, the true mystery within. In the beginning, I believe man was complete and androgynous-both male and female, or neither, like angels. Then came the division, and Eve was taken from him. So the problem for man is to reunite himself with the other half of his being, to find the woman who is right for him-right be she is simply a projection, a mirror of himself. A man can’t become whole or free until he has set woman free-his woman. It’s his responsibility, not hers. He can’t be complete, truly alive until he makes her his sexual companion, and not a slave of libidinous acts or a saint with a halo.
• [on Akira Kurosawa] I think he is the greatest example of all that an author of the cinema should be. I feel a fraternal affinity with his way of telling a story.
• 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.
• I always direct the same film. I can’t distinguish one from another.
• It’s absolutely impossible to improvise. Making a movie is a mathematical operation. It is like sending a missile to the moon. It isn’t improvised. It is too defined to be called improvisational, too mechanical. Art is a scientific operation, so I can say that what we usually call improvisation is in my case just having an ear and eye for things that sometimes occur during the time we are making the picture.
• Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
• 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.
• All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
• It’s easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
• Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way.
• You have to live spherically–in many directions. To accept yourself for what you are without inhibitions, to be open.
• Our dreams are our real life. My fantasies and obsessions are not only my reality, but the stuff of which my films are made.
• In the mythology of the cinema, the Oscar is the supreme prize.
• In the myth of the cinema, Oscar is the supreme prize.
• You exist only in what you do.
• My work is my only relationship to everything.
• There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Federico Fellini Important Facts

• Born on the same day as actor DeForest Kelley.
• Retrospective at the 7th New Horizons Film Festival (2007).
• His ten favorite films are The Circus (1928), Any of Marx Brothers or Laurel and Hardy films, Stagecoach (1939), Rashômon (1950), Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Pais
• He is mentioned in the song “Radio Blá” by Lobão. .
• Like his fellow World Cinema masters, Ingmar Bergman (who started in live theater) and Akira Kurosawa (who started in the Japanese art world) he came to cinema via circumvention after working as a journalist.
• Denied his film Amarcord (1973) is autobiographical, but agreed that there are similarities with his own childhood.
• In the 5th edition of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (edited by Steven Jay Schneider), 7 of Fellini’s films are listed: La Strada (1954), The Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), Fellini – Satyricon (1969) and Amarcord (1973).
• Has been described as a major influence by, among others, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Bernardo Bertolucci and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
• Profiled in “Conversations with Directors: An Anthology of Interviews from Literature/Film Quarterly”, E.M. Walker, D.T. Johnson, eds. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008.
• A great admirer of Georges Simenon’s novels. They shared a letter friendship for many years.
• Dino De Laurentiis originally hoped that Fellini would direct Flash Gordon (1980).
• Died the day after his 50th wedding anniversary.
• Born to Urbano Fellini (1894-1956), a salesman and wholesale vendor, and his wife Ida Barbiani (1896-1984), he had two younger siblings, Riccardo (1921-1991) and Maria Maddalena (1929-2002).
• His son Pier Federico was born on 22 March 1945, but died just one month later.
• Many of his movies such as 8½ (1963) or Fellini – Satyricon (1969) are influenced by the work of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung and his ideas on the “anima” and the “animus”, the role of archetypes and the collective unconscious.
• His hometown Rimini named the Federico Fellini International Airport in his honor.
• Is buried in the same bronze tomb as his wife Giulietta Masina and their son Pier Federico, located at the main entrance to the Cemetery of Rimini.
• The Broadway musical “Sweet Charity” was inspired by Fellini’s Oscar-winning film, The Nights of Cabiria (1957).
• Was an admirer of director Ken Russell’s work.
• The main character, Guido Contini, in the Maury Yeston musical “Nine” is inspired by Fellini.
• His movies La Strada (1954), The Nights of Cabiria (1957), 8½ (1963) and Amarcord (1973) were Oscar-nominated for “Best Foreign Language Film”. All 4 movies won.
• Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. “World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985”. Pages 330-341. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
• Was voted the 10th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
• He had a bombastic, short-tempered personality when shooting films, a personality he made no attempt to hide when cameras were on him.
• Died on the same day as actor River Phoenix.
• The term “paparazzi” comes from a character named Paparazzo in his film, La Dolce Vita (1960), who is a journalist photographing celebrities.
• He was the inspiration and his voice was sampled for the album “Fellini Days” (released in 2001) by former Marillion singer Fish.
• In 1966 he abandoned his planned film project “The Journey of G. Mastorna”. In 1990 the storyline for the film was later adapted into a graphic novel entitled “Trip to Tulum: From a Script for a Film Idea”, illustrated by Milo Manara.
• He was a big fan of Stan Lee and Marvel Comics (publishers of superhero comics like Spiderman and the Hulk).
• One of his first writing jobs was the Italian language script for the Flash Gordon comic strip.
• Inspired the word “Felliniesque”

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