“The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all — that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open — has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?”

— Federico Fellini

"Decline of Cinema"
I'm a Born Liar (2003)

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Italian filmmaker 1920–1993

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