Federico Fellini citations

Federico Fellini [fedeˈriːko felˈliːni] est un réalisateur de cinéma et scénariste italien né à Rimini le 20 janvier 1920 et mort à Rome le 31 octobre 1993.

Il est l'un des plus grands et célèbres réalisateurs italiens du XXe siècle et l'un des cinéastes les plus illustres de l'histoire du cinéma, au même titre que Charlie Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, John Ford, Jean Renoir, Alfred Hitchcock ou encore Orson Welles. Il a gagné la Palme d'or au Festival de Cannes 1960 pour La dolce vita et quatre fois l'Oscar du meilleur film en langue étrangère à Hollywood , un record qu'il partage avec son compatriote Vittorio De Sica.

Marquée à ses débuts par le néoréalisme, l'œuvre de Fellini évolue, dans les années 1960, vers une forme singulière, liée à la modernité cinématographique européenne à laquelle Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard ou encore Andreï Tarkovski sont rattachés. Ses films se caractérisent alors par le foisonnement des thèmes et du récit, l'artificialité revendiquée de la mise en scène et l'absence totale de frontière entre le rêve, l'imaginaire, l'hallucination et le monde de la réalité.

Le 29 mars 1993, un Oscar d'honneur pour l'ensemble de sa carrière, « en appréciation de l'un des maîtres-conteurs de l'écran », lui est attribué par la prestigieuse Académie des arts et sciences du cinéma à Los Angelès.



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✵ 20. janvier 1920 – 31. octobre 1993
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Federico Fellini Citations

Federico Fellini: Citations en anglais

“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”

Fellini on Fellini (1976) edited by Anna Keel and Christian Strich; translated by Isabel Quigly.
Variante: There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

“I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all.”

"Artistic Freedom"
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
Contexte: I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

“You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.”

Variante: Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way.

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”

On the autobiographical nature of his films, in The Atlantic (December 1965)

“Art is all about craftsmanship.”

"Craftsmanship"
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
Contexte: I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.

“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.”

As quoted in Rolling Stone no. 421 (1984)
Contexte: 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.

“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one…”

"Every Time We Say Goodbye" in Sight and Sound [London] ( June 1991)
Contexte: What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one — which is really the realm of the artist.

“Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks.”

Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.
"Death"
I'm a Born Liar (2003)

“If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do.”

"Hypocrisy"
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
Contexte: If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses.

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

On the autobiographical nature of his films, in The Atlantic (December 1965)

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