I believe [Ingmar Bergman], [Vittorio De Sica] and [Federico Fellini] are the only three filmmakers in the world who are not just artistic opportunists. By this I mean they don`t just sit and wait for a good story to come along and then make it. They have...
Stanley Kubrick
The directors that have personal, emotional feelings for me are Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini, and I`m sure there has been some influence but never a direct one. I never set out to try and do anything like them. But, you know, when you listen to a j...
Woody Allen
[on Federico Fellini] His films are a small town boy`s dream of a big city. His sophistication works because it is the creation of someone who doesn`t have it. But he shows dangerous signs of being a superlative artist with little to say.
Orson Welles
People talk about my signature. But I ask them if they ever saw Howard Hawks` films. They`re filled with overlapping dialog. Everything I`ve learned has come from watching other directors: Bergman [Ingmar Bergman, Fellini [Federico Fellini], Kurosawa [Aki...
Robert Altman
People talk about my signature. But I ask them if they ever saw Howard Hawks` films. They`re filled with overlapping dialog. Everything I`ve learned has come from watching other directors: Bergman [Ingmar Bergman, Fellini [Federico Fellini], Kurosawa [Aki...
Robert Altman
[On Federico Fellini] He is enormously intuitive. He is intuitive; he is creative; he is an enormous force. He is burning inside with such heat. Collapsing. Do you understand what I mean? The heat from his creative mind, it melts him. He suffers from it; ...
Ingmar Bergman