Intervista
1987
Vestal Virgin: This is chicory. Oh, sautéed with garlic and red pepper, it's to die! Japanese Reporter: He says it's bitter. Vestal Virgin: That's what makes it good. A nice kind of bitter. Like the Romans: they act tough, but they're sweethearts.
Fascist Grape Picker: Companion, with fascist ardor we offer the golden fruit of our vineyards. Reporter: Has it been washed?
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."