Intervista (1987)

Federico Fellini: Federico Fellini

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• [last lines] 

  Federico Fellini : The film should end here. In fact, it ends here, and I hear the words of an old producer of mine. "What? Without the faintest hope, or ray of sunshine? Give me a ray of sunshine" he would beg at the end of each film. A ray of sunshine? Well, let's try.

• Reporter : I don't like smoking or drinking.

  Marcello Mastroianni : But how about women?

  Reporter : Oh, yes, a lot, but...

  Federico Fellini : But? But what?

  Reporter : Frankly, what I like best is jerking off.

  Marcello Mastroianni : Ah. Good solution. An exercise in concentration that stimulates fantasy, and I'd say it develops a novelist's turn of mind. My experiences, for example, were like installment novels - always new characters who introduced other ones: "Meet my sister. This is my cousin."

• [first lines] 

  Federico Fellini : You here already? Go home to bed.