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Federico Fellini Quotes
«The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borgese on a daily basis.»
«The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?»
Author: Federico Fellini
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Film Director)
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Keywords:
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disappeared,
dreamt,
hypnotic,
in the public eye,
one thousand,
public eye,
The Authority,
The Image,
The Long Dark,
The Public Eye
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«A sign of growing old is when interviewers start asking you,?What would you do differently if you had your life to live over again?? I give some sort of answer because I don?t wish to be rude, but I don?t tell them the image that comes into my mind because they would think it vain and frivolous, and no one wants to be a subject for ridicule. I see myself as a tall, skinny Fellini, vigorously lifting weights. That?s what I would do differently. I would lift weights.»