Experience is what you get while looking for something else. — Federico Fellini

"A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together."

"The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they dont read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition thats turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borghese on a daily basis."

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

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

"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."

"I discovered that whats really important for a creator isnt what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, whats 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. Its not what we say but how we say it that matters."