The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.
Interpretation
Our imagination shapes our perceptions and creations.
Federico Fellini highlights the importance of imagination in the creative process, suggesting that our thoughts and visions are fundamental to how we perceive and create art. This quote emphasizes that the essence of any artistic expression starts from within, and that what we visualize in our minds is the foundation for all tangible creations.
In practice
In a motivational speech about creativity, one could quote Fellini to inspire artists to embrace their inner visions.
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.
To be an actor you have to be a child.
Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.
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