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The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's 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.

— Federico Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003)

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

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

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

Fellini on Fellini (1976)

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

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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

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