A different language is a different vision of life.
Interpretation
Learning a new language offers a fresh perspective on life.
This quote by Federico Fellini suggests that each language provides its own unique framework for understanding and interpreting the world. When one learns a different language, they also adopt a new way of seeing and experiencing life, as language shapes thought and perception.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of learning languages in a globalized world.
I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.
Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
What's 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. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.
We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him
Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.
People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices.
You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.
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