Federico Fellini Quotes About Film
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I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I always direct the same film. I can't distinguish one from the other.
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.
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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.
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