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.
Interpretation
Dreams and cinema both convey complex ideas and emotions through imagery.
Federico Fellini compares dreams to cinema, highlighting how both mediums can manipulate time and space through vivid visuals. He suggests that just as dreams can convey meaning through imagery and symbolism, so too can films, inviting viewers to interpret deeper underlying themes and emotions present in the visual narrative.
In practice
Using this quote in a film studies class to discuss the symbolism in cinema.
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.
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.
What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.
The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom
In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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