A fantastic man who makes fantastic films. He's clever and witty almost as if by accident, free of pretention. He seems to express this unexpected humility for his life and work that makes him so endearing. Yet through his humility you get the sense that every word is incredibly insightful and that his view of the world is uniquely his. I will post some of my favorite bits of the interview for a taste...
"I couldn't stand Humphrey Bogart. I couldn't understand how someone could always be so angry that he even wore his trench coat to bed."
When talking about Buster Keaton..."His main strength is in suggesting a point of view, a completely different outlook, almost a philosophy, a different religion that overturns and ridicules all fixed and rigid formulas and ideas -- a comic character directly out of Zen Buddhism."
"Only faith in something, or someone, hidden within us, can inspire the mysterious work of creation -- someone little known, a wise and subtle part of us, working within us. We help that unknown part by trusting in it, by accepting it, by letting it work for us. That feeling of trust, I think, can be defined as religious feeling."
"like that other time in Padua, at two o'clock on an August afternoon, when all alone I saw on a church door an enormous poster with a black border and the inscription: "Let us pray for the salvation of the soul of Federico Fellini, public sinner"
"I am concerned with day to day living, with how much I can do while I am alive. All the rest seems like mere speculation to me."