Damian Pettigrew

"IRS-RSI - Storyboard sketches from Fellini: I'm a Born Liar"

"Fellini has sometimes been accused of not being interested in the work of other directors but I never found this accusation to hold true. The Federico I knew was not only a voracious reader but extrem…"

"The single greatest influence on my work as a filmmaker has been the celebrated Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester. Sylvester is a master of the art of complicity: he knows how to manipu…"

"St Louis Post-Dispatch Harper Barnes: "A Work of Art"

"A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process…"

"Without once compromising his artistic integrity, Fellini imagined a body of work -- as opposed to a suite of spin-offs, remakes, potboilers and so on -- where each production can be ranked as among t…"

"Fellini was a hugely original spirit, a bona fide gagman, the king of contradiction, a well-oiled motor mouth -- in short, anything except a thinker. He needed the interviews and the media because it …"

"Italo Calvino said the artist reveals that bit of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie. Art is all about the art of lying. The artist’s imperative is to create a supreme fiction, a lie that, parado…"