Federico Fellini Quotes in Intervista (1987)

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.

[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.