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Cinéma-vérité? I prefer 'cine-mendacity'. A lie is always more interesting than the truth...Fiction may have a greater truth than everyday, obvious reality.

— Federico Fellini Fellini on Fellini (1976)

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

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