“With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.” I CanRunningFilmQualityImagineDespairPerfectionEssenceUpliftingExceptionEcstasyVitalitySurrealBittersweetAdjectivesParadoxicalBest Film Author:Damian Pettigrew
“I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.” PeopleIfsFilmEmotionalPerfectionMiracleTechniqueAweAgain And AgainGreat FilmEmotional Life Author:Ali MacGraw