Ciao, Federico! (1970)

Federico Fellini: Self

Quotes 

• Federico Fellini : I am completely agree with all the obstacle and with all the - enemies who are between me and what I want to do. I see that they cooperate. They are - they are in a providential manner, they help me to do exactly what I want. Because if I am not to fight, it is in the fighting that I can see better - what I want to do. It is in the - in the - friction - the thing become more clear.

• Federico Fellini : A guy's balls can only swell up so far before they explode!

• Federico Fellini : It's a long shot, sweetheart.

  Capucine : But, I want to do it right!

  Federico Fellini : And I want you to.

• Federico Fellini : The first weeks, the first two or three weeks, they are always really very difficult. Because, all the phantoms, with which you have lived during the preparations, you have to materialize in a concrete, objective image. These magic operation, it is at the beginning. I still don't know exactly and I'm just watching to see if all the steps and if all the rituals that I have prepared can permit all your phantoms to become alive.

• Federico Fellini : Up your ass! Go back to your place! We rehearsed it 20 times! How can you be so stupid?

• Federico Fellini : Look up transfixed - with a smile of admiration for poetry and art. Stop. Hold it there.

• Federico Fellini : Why keep a picture where I look like a 75-year-old in a toupee?

• Capucine : You told me very vaguely what to do and I did it.

  Federico Fellini : No, I was just kidding.

  Capucine : No.

  Federico Fellini : I changed my mind.

  Capucine : Sure, later, but at first you said nothing. I never know!

  Federico Fellini : Sweetheart, it was a long shot.

  Capucine : Then you tell me, "Look at them."

  Federico Fellini : A man can change his mind.

  Capucine : I know, darling, but I'm very delicate.

  Federico Fellini : Delicate. Don't I treat you delicately?

  Capucine : Sure, real delicately!

  Federico Fellini : You see this guy?

  Capucine : Did I do it right?

  Federico Fellini : You were great!

  [kisses Cupcine's cheek] 

  Federico Fellini : Otherwise, we'd reshoot it.

• Federico Fellini : What the fuck are you filming? What's the point?

• Federico Fellini : Going on with the years and become older, I feel much more available to do anything. Just to film. One day past, without shooting, gave me a feeling to have lost something. Now, I think that the important thing is to do. The picture or the books that you have not shooted or written, did not exist. Exist only what you do.

• Federico Fellini : They're filming for American TV.

  Romolo Valli : Let's face the camera. This is my bad profile.

• Federico Fellini : Gideon, how should I introduce you? From the Breaking Balls Corporation?

• Federico Fellini : The only authentic way I can participate in what you call the world is my work. It forces me to relate to people, to go do research. My work is my only authentic way of relating to everyone, of relating to myself and expressing myself, of finding sustenance by engaging with others, and constantly relating - story by story and film by film - to the objective world outside myself.

• Federico Fellini : Do as I say or I'll let you have it. Move your body as if you're cumming. Bear with me. Open your legs. Be nice. Let me try again. Now you say, "What's between your legs? A pickled eel?"

• Roman Polanski : I've been already three or four times. Once we went stoned. The first time, completely stoned.

  Federico Fellini : Yeah?

  Sharon Tate : You couldn't tell the dolls from the real people.

  Federico Fellini : Next time I'm going to America I will pass two weeks in Disneyland.

• Federico Fellini : When I feel fulfilled in my work, I feel better.

• Federico Fellini : An artist, as long as he's fully absorbed in his creativity, in that dimension for which he was born - nothing bad can happen to him as long as he's immersed in that atmosphere where he can breathe, that makes him grow.

• Federico Fellini : Good luck to you.

  Roman Polanski : Thank you, very much.

  Federico Fellini : Ciao, Roman!