Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.
Interpretation
Regrets prevent you from fully engaging with the present and moving forward in life.
This quote emphasizes the futility of dwelling on past mistakes or regrets, suggesting that doing so only hinders one's ability to enjoy and live in the present moment. Federico Fellini highlights the importance of letting go of past grievances to embrace life as it is now, advocating for a forward-looking mindset.
In practice
Using this quote during a self-improvement seminar to encourage attendees to focus on the future rather than dwelling on mistakes.
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.
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.
If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
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