Finding Fellini

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody. Herbert Bayard Swope

One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have wholehearted enthusiasm. Hannah Senesh

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. Orson Welles

Do you want to know my secret? I don't mind what happens. Krishnamurti

You've gotta be slightly stupid. Joe Strummer

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. Sidney Lumet

Once you label me you negate me. Soren Kierkegaard

Yesterday I enjoyed a brief chat with a fellow amateur filmmaker. I was renting some gear to him for a shoot. Wishing him luck and express...

My only goal is to have no goals. The goal, every time, is that film, that very moment. Bernardo Bertolucci

In carrying on my own humble creative effort, I depend greatly upon that which i do not yet know, and upon which that I have not yet done. M...

I have been perhaps slow to realize that the facts are always friendly. Every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that ...

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. Albert Einstein

I see no dividing line between imagination and reality. Federico Fellini

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police, but instead of calling the process by which we limit our e...

Cut for proper values rather than for proper matches. Edward Dmytryk

So quite a lot of people who've come into cinema from the commercials world have had to learn the very fact of what cinematography is ov...

I just always think, "Do I like it?" And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too. Billy Wilder

The real truth is that I didn't want to (advance his filmmaking career). As an assistant I could drink all I wanted and spend my time ta...

And that's what I hate, you know. Talking - it's real dangerous. David Lynch

Life has no meaning, but we must give it one. Charlie Chaplin