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.
I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case
Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Getting the player emotionally involved is the holy grail. We try to make players forget they're playing a game. We want them to live the experience and suspend disbelief.
I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.
Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.
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