- Federico Fellini: I invented my youth, my family, my relationships with women and with life. I'm a born liar.
- Federico Fellini: My films happen because I sign a contract. I get an advance that I don't want to repay, so I have to make the film.
- Federico Fellini: At the start, for one or two weeks, I'm directing the film. Then, then, the film starts to direct me.
- Terence Stamp: In zee morning, someone take you to dee airport and put big tab LSD in your mouth - now you're here!
- Giuseppe Rotunno: I never say to Federico, 'I'm ready.' I always say, 'Federico, I am ready to change.'
- Rinaldo Geleng: When Federico was free of her at last, he told me, 'Rinaldo, I finally succeeded in spitting on her ass.'
- Italo Calvino: For a psychiatrist, whether you lie or tell the truth is unimportant because lies are as interesting, as eloquent, and as revelatory as the so-called truth.
- Federico Fellini: I get along with actors, even the most difficult ones: capricious actresses, prima donnas. I never had any problems.
- Federico Fellini: [Describing his working relationship with actors] It's a collaboration. Puppets are happy to be puppets if the puppeteer is a good puppeteer.
- [Off-camera interviewer laughs; Fellini smiles]
- Daniel Toscan du Plantier: [Describing involvement in a Fellini film] You surrender yourself - bound hand and foot - to someone who's out to destroy you. That's how he'll make his film. You have to try and survive. Or else not get involved.
- Federico Fellini: [Describing his attitude toward actors] I'm very fond of them. I adore their childish side, the infantile, extroverted, peacock side, their capriciousness.